The Power of Panopticism in the House of Bernarda Alba In Truth and Juridical Forms Robert Hurley provides us the definition of panopticism by Michel Foucault:
Panopticism is one of the characteristic traits of our society. It’s a type of power that is applied to individuals in the form of continuous individual supervision, in the form of control, punishment and compensation, and in the form of correction, that is, the molding and transformation of individuals in terms of certain norms. This threefold aspect of panopticism – supervision, control, correction –seems to be a fundamental and characteristic dimension of the power relations that exists in our society. (70)
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was
