Rebellion or Reconciliation— A Study of Lives of the Saints and The Scarlet Letter
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Nino Ricci, a Canadian writer of Italian heritage wrote a trilogy, starting with a book entitled Lives of the Saints (2015), which drew comparisons to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, prompting scholars to analyze the similarities between the two works. Both the two heroines, Christina in Lives of the Saints and Hester in The Scarlet Letter, engage in extramarital affairs, are pregnant with a baby, challenge the strict social norms of their villages, and are isolated from the community. Although Lives of the Saints is regarded as “Canadian The Scarlet Letter” [1], few scholars have compared the two novels with proofs and details. In particular, apart from the massive resemblances, the differences between the two novels have been neglected by most researchers. This paper aims to analyze the two novels from the process and results of the two heroines’ rebellion, comparing their silence and argument, reconciliation and rebellion, return and departure, and attempting to find the reasons behind those differences.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".