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In this paragraph on page 316, Foucault explains how he feels a person should be disciplined and he looks at it from many different angles. “This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded in which an uninterrupted work of writing links the center and periphery, in which power is exercised without division, according to a continuous hierarchical figure, in which each individual is constantly located, examined, and distributed among the living beings, the sick, and the dead-all this constitutes a compact model of the disciplinary mechanism.” In this first sentence of the paragraph a descriptio
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“The plague as a form, at once real and imaginary, of disorder had as its medical correlative disciple.
“The plague is met by order; its function is to sort out every possible confusion: that of the disease, which is transmitted when bodies are mixed together; that of the evil, which is increased when fear and death overcome prohibitions. “A whole literary fiction of the festival grew up around the plague: suspended laws, lifted prospect, individuals unmasked, abandoning their statutory identity and the figure under which they had been recognized, allowing a quite different truth to appear”. It breaks everything down and as described is an “omnipresent and omniscient power”. Evil becomes very overwelming when it can not be controlled or prevented. ” The plague serves as a sort of god to the individual. They were changing their personalities to fit into this containment, as I said earlier, trying to adapt to thier envrionments. In disciplining that way it would make the individual a better person, “excercising power without division” is an example. David Bartholomae Boston:Bedford/St. ” The plague can be used as an effective way to discipline, it is how we would use it that has an effect on if ever it would be possible.
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