An Insight into the Notion of Otherness in "Désirée’s Baby" and "That Evening Sun"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the notion of otherness, which is prevalent throughout the 19th century in America through the individual and environmental analysis of the main characters in two American short stories- "That Evening Sun" (1931) by William Faulkner and Kate Chopin’s "Désirée's Baby" (1893). The current study presents the common theme in the short stories of both Faulkner and Chopin, which demonstrates how racism, injustice, sexism, and prejudice were imposed on persons in the South during the antebellum era (about the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century). The diminishing values that African American and female characters have to face are analyzed in the article comparing their situation in relation to gender and racial discrimination, and the way they are segregated from the society. Themes such as victimization, segregation, the isolating nature of inequality, alienation from society and civilization at large, and the position of African American women in the mid-19th century Southern United States are analyzed in this article through the symbolic elements present in both short stories. By opposing and contrasting the protagonists of the two stories and providing an in-depth analysis of the characteristics and motivations of each character, this article brings awareness to the issue of otherness in its broadest sense.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".