Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: The Mirror Effect in Jean Anouilh’s <i>Le voyageur sans bagage</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Widely regarded as Anouilh’s first mature play and first critical success, Le voyageur sans bagage features Gaston, a World War I amnesia victim who, after almost two decades in an asylum, is pressured by a philanthropic Duchess to find his family. She escorts him to the family she prefers, whose missing member was an unsavoury character bearing no resemblance to the person Gaston believes himself to be. The plot centres on Gaston’s struggles to come to terms with a past that horrifies him. The play has garnered little scholarly attention; the few existing studies look broadly at Anouilh’s generic categories, the play’s anti-war theme, or its final plot twist. What has not been explored is an element informing the play at every turn: mirroring or dédoublement. This article shows how the myriad instances of mirroring or doubling highlight the duality inherent in Anouilh’s protagonist.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".