Character dossier

Bloch

A heavily annotated figure whose treatment is almost uniformly and intensely negative across all three lenses.

61 annotation unitsFallen
Bloch portrait, Tarot
Bloch: uniformly fallen.Tarot

Interpretation

Bloch is one of the clearest aggregate negative cases in the corpus, with repeated losses in advantage, prestige, and inclusion reinforcing each other rather than splitting apart.

Why Bloch Is Distinctive

  • He is a high-frequency example of durable corpus-wide diminishment rather than a character defined by one isolated late collapse.
  • His profile is especially useful for testing whether repeated comic or social discredit remains stable across volumes.

Social Lenses

Archetype

Fallen

Broadly losing across immediate outcome, rank, and belonging.

Advantage

5%

Rank 59/62

Net score
-81.142
Mean
-1.33
Span
+6.315
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Prestige

5%

Rank 59/62

Net score
-56.308
Mean
-0.923
Span
+6.817
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Inclusion

5%

Rank 59/62

Net score
-82.66
Mean
-1.355
Span
+6.633
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Scene-level advantage over time

Advantage ELO Across ISLT

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Distinguishing Passages

Reading Path

  1. Main concentration of ridicule and social diminishment
  2. Balbec reinforcement of the same pattern
  3. Later persistence in a changed social field

Passage Signals