The purpose of this essay is to analyze how certain elements of panopticism manage to dismantle the notion of privacy in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. By reading the text through a lens of panopticism, a theory introduced by Jeremy Bentham, I give examples on how the surveillance methods used by the Party share similarities with the system of surveillance within a Panoptic prison, but also in what ways that they differ. In the end, it is obvious that the society of Oceania cannot be considered to be a complete Panopticon, although several elements of panopticism are present within the text and that they dismantle the aspect of privacy in the novel.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-41716 |
Date | January 2016 |
Creators | Berggren, Amalia |
Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur |
Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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