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Panopticon

Samantha Brown
Benjamin Ondieki
English 102
27-Sept-08
A Modern Prison
In the beginning of Michel Foucault’s writing Panopticism, he tell us of a plague stricken town and the precautions taken to ensure the disease is contained. The town is closed down to all; no one comes in and no one leaves. Each family is confined to their house, “prohibited to leave under punishment of death” (209). Guards and such are places throughout the town to secure it as well as keep records of how everyone feels and any occurrences that take place. The people of the town are watched constantly; everything they do is seen by their guard or intendants. Not only can the people not move around their town or leave their homes, they are not able to have any medical attention but that supplied by the government. The reader can clearly see the imposition of power that the government is using to confine the danger. The government has used its power to keep people in its control for centuries,......


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