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Record W2996345485 · doi:10.3968/11111

T. S. Eliot’s Prufrock: An Archetypal Mock-Modern Tragic Hero

2019· article· en· W2996345485 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Rashed Daghamin

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in literature and language · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLeadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHEROEmptinessLiteratureLove songPsycheAestheticsCriticismPsychoanalysisAmbiguityPhilosophyRomanceDialecticPoetryArtPsychologyEpistemology

Abstract

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Literature is a mirror of society and life, and T.S. Eliot is a keen painter who dexterously sketches the true picture of the sterile modern world. Eliot outlines and delineates the anxiety, decline, ambiguity, fragmentation, paralysis and disorder of his age, the early decades of the 20th century, through a meticulous, keen and realistic delineation of Prufrock. Eliot portrays Prufrock’s tragic and farcical story; the story of frustration, failure, debasement, paralysis, emasculation, uncertainty, conscious-inertia, self-effacement, and spiritual infertility. Eliot also, through Prufrock, delineates the utter emptiness of modern man and the sterility and hollowness of the western civilization. Prufrock speaks, suffers, and agonizes on behalf of the twentieth century man. His agonies are generalized, a theme that Eliot tends to present and emphasize. The poem exemplifies all presumable techniques and themes of Modernism, such as fragmentation, allusion, juxtaposition, uncertainty, ambiguity, inertia, hyperconsciousness, imagery, symbolism, and condemnation of the sterility of the modern world. This research paper critically examines the pathetic and tragic life, concerns, deterioration and disintegration of Prufrock. The paper is a deep psychological analysis of the mind and psyche of a neurite, coward, psychosexually paralyzed hero who is prone to inferiority complex, hyperconsciousness, self-effacement, dehumanization, and paralysis. The state of mental, psychological and physical paralysis evidently shapes Prufrock’s fragmented and sophisticated thoughts and actions. Through a meticulous and objective analysis, this paper critically examines the poets’ philosophical dialectic, and it demonstrates that Prufrock is an archetypal, mock-modern tragic hero.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0070.008
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.378
Teacher spread0.338 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
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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