Manipulation of Mechanisms of Surveilance and Control: A Critical Analysis of Veronica Ruth's Diverget Trilogy
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2019
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Sou. Bhagyashri Ramesh Chougule
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Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy depicts a society where surreptitious surveillance is deeply
embedded in its social structure. The current paper explores how totalitarian regime employs surveillance
and ideology in tandem for the suppression and subjugations of its subjects. Michael Foucault's concept of
Panopticon is used as a lens to unravel how surveillance is employed as a powerful tool for the control and
containment of people. Foucault illustrates how Panopticon is used to exercise power on a human body to
cultivate discipline and docility among inmates on a microscopic level. However, the study analyses how
the totalitarian regime in Divergent trilogy uses the Foucauldian concept of Panopticon on the
macroscopic level for the mass incarceration of the general public. In addition, the paper asserts that the
present world has become a gigantic panoptic world where escape seems impossible.
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Lone, Sartaj Ahmad and Zafar, Shahila (2018) Manipulation of Mechanisms of Surveillance and Control: ACritical Analysis 78-85 of Veronica Ruth's Divergent Trilogy. Literary Endeavour. Vol. X(1), PP.78-85