Duality of victim/victimizer in personal and national context in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, first published in 1972, is a novel about a woman's journey both in the physical and metaphysical sense.The thesis explores duality in Atwood's writing focusing especially on the duality of victim/victimizer in Surfacing.The aim of this thesis is to analyze how this duality can be perceived as the protagonist expresses her views of herself and Canada and how these views transform in the course of the novel.The thesis consists of an introduction, two main chapters, and a conclusion.The introduction gives background information on the novel, its importance in the Canadian context, and Atwood's use of duality.The introduction also includes the aim of the thesis.The first main chapter is a literature review that provides an overview of duality in Atwood's writing as discussed in literary criticism, and the thematic dualities of female/male, nature/culture, and victim/victimizer Atwood has used in Surfacing.The second main chapter provides an analysis of the victim/victimizer duality in the novel.The chapter is divided into two subchapters that focus on the transformation of the protagonist's view of herself and the transformation of the protagonist's view of Canada respectively.The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the thesis.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".