A satire on social class and gender in Victorian society reflected through the main characters In J.M. Barrie’s The Twelve-Pound Look
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis discusses satire on social class and gender in Victorian society that is implied in J. M. Barrie's The Twelve-pound Look play.The reason in writing this thesis is my curiosity to understand satire.This play is chosen because the main characters and their characteristics represent the Victorian society that is satirized by the author.The main characters have experienced the life in the middle of Victorian society.The author tries to satirize the social conditions that are social class and gender through the main characters.There are two problem formulations in this study.First is to analyze the main characters' characterization to reveal the characteristics of society in Victorian Era.Second is to find out the satires on society in Victorian Era according to the evidences of previous analysis.This study applies library research method as the main source to gain the data.The information from the internet is also used as second source.The sociocultural-historical approach is used in this study since it sees the relation between the work and the society in the real life.This approach is useful to analyze the society's condition at that time.There two points that can be concluded after analyzing the play.The first point is the description of the characteristics of society in Victorian Era depicted through the main characters' characterization.The result of the analysis shows that the Victorian upper class men such Sir Harry Sims are described as ambitious, arrogant, harsh, and underestimate the lower class.The ideal Victorian women are those who look like Lady Sims who is described as obedient, dependent, and unskillful.Their duties are for the domestic problems for the sake of their husbands' and families' reputation.Upper class people can live in luxury with the help of servants to do their housework.Whereas the Victorian lower class women are described as independent, skillful, hard worker, responsible to their job, and dares to fight for their dignity.The lower class people such as Kate should fight for their living.The second point is the satires on social class and gender in Victorian society.Barrie satirizes the upper class' ambition, point of view of human value, and bad treatment toward the lower class.In his play, he also satirizes the way an upper class man humiliate lower class working woman.Thus, he satirizes how an upper class man treated his wife badly.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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.
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".