“The Panopticon is a machine fore dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.” (p.232). What Foucault is trying to get across here is that the Panopticon establishes a difference between the people watching and the people being watched. If one were under constant surveillance and evaluation, knowing that one false move can translate into termination, then the obvious occurs and the being would act as proper as can be. Under such scrutiny, a person would have one of two choices-to be an angel, or to go crazy because of not knowing if a surveyo

“…the Panopticon presents a cruel, ingenuous cage.” (p.236). Although the Panopticon encloses people into a tiny room, it is really a thought of a genius only because it is an original thought that makes the community of the world as a whole where things are ran in a Panopticon more controlled. Through this, Foucault tries to say that it is so cruel yet such an ingenuous idea because of the fact that it probably would make people go crazy but it does control the way people think and approach their everyday existence.

“In appearance, it is merely a solution of a technical problem: but, through it, a whole type of society emerges.” (p.244). Through trails and tribulation, in the end, a society, which at one time was “filthy” in a sense, would be reincarnated into a virtually flawless civilization is what Foucault is saying here. Not only does Panopticism solve surface issues, but it also paves the way for the future to mold into a beautiful one by having other men gain the knowledge of how people should be acting in a controlled space. A society does emerge as a whole and is a much more safer and sound place to live because of all the prisoners that aren’t on the streets and all of the technical problems are being solved by the gain of knowledge by certain individuals who are running the Panopticon.

rs eyes are watching over their every move. The man that is lucky enough to be standing in the tower is the one who seems like he has all the power because the man that is being seen but “cannot see” so to say, is the one that is going crazy because he doesn’t know if he can get away with something at a certain point in time because of not knowing if he is being watched or not. So what can one do but to do what is expected of a perfect huma

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