Analyzing Michel Foucault's 'Panopticism'

“Panopticism” Michel Foucault, very well seen as a leading academic and philosopher, wrote many great book and essays. The well known book, “Panopticism,” describes the idea of how one controls things through power. Foucault uses a broad variety of examples throughout the passage to convey the sense of society and how one is controlled by a panopticon. To share is thoughts on society he uses vivid descriptions of the idea of a plague in a community and how society was quarantined to remain sterile. He also shows how one reacts when in power.
In the story, Foucault explains the idea of a panopticon. He explains it as the force of power. The force of power controls society and when in control seems to act differently than expected from others. The panopticon watched over the community and surveillances all the acts of the prisoners in the passage. The prisoners in the chapter are put in solitary confinement because the whole entire community was quarantined in order to protect the people from harm of the plague. The panopticon was designed to help the
The groups are divided based on their status in society. To separate the group, they quarantined the community to get everyone under complete control. The groups were known as magistrates, intendants and syndics. The magistrates in the passage, also known as the mayor, they have complete control over certain products in the community like medicine. The intendants report everything from the syndics to the magistrates. The syndics are the roll callers and they report everything they know in the town to the intendants. The prisoners in the story are the ones who are put into solitary confinement because the community feels like they are corrupting the town. In order to remain sterile they have removed them and came in with a concept that once the poisoners are removed then the town can become a better and whole