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Record W2766153440 · doi:10.5539/ells.v7n4p94

Animals in The Mayor of Casterbridge

2017· article· en· W2766153440 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Qin Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueEnglish Language and Literature Studies · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThomas Hardy Literature Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPerspective (graphical)Representation (politics)Natural (archaeology)HistoryThe SymbolicGenealogyLiteratureArtPsychologyPsychoanalysisVisual artsLawPolitical scienceArchaeology

Abstract

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Thomas Hardy, one of the outstanding writers in the 19th century. The Mayor of Casterbridge, is Hardy’s masterpiece. As an enthusiastic lover of nature, natural description is of great importance in Hardy’s novels. In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy associates the presence of nature especially the animals to the characters’ conditions. In the novel, Hardy endowed the “inhuman” animals with human characteristics. This paper will interprete the novel from the perspective of animals. It will explore the associations between the recurring bird image and Henchard’s tragic fate, the close similarities between the bull and Henchard’s characteristics, and the sheep as the symbolic representation of vulnerable women in the novel.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.376
Threshold uncertainty score0.549

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.290
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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