Essays about: "Jeremy Bentham"
Found 5 essays containing the words Jeremy Bentham.
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1. “Where you think no one sees you – do what you want!” : Nineteen Eighty-Four and Upper Secondary School Students’ Perception of Surveillance
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to juxtapose students’ perceptions of surveillance to the surveillance portrayed in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. By using Michel Foucault’s expansion of Jeremy Bentham’s discussion of the Panopticon, this essay shows that upper secondary school students modify their behaviour, like the characters in the novel, when they are under surveillance. READ MORE
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2. How the concept of fairness influences EU law
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrättAbstract : The thesis presents fairness as a concept that can be defined in several ways. The different definitions overlap and influence each other in a somewhat unexpected manner. READ MORE
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3. Surveillance in Nineteen Eighty-Four : The Dismantling of Privacy in Oceania
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : 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. READ MORE
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4. Big Brother is Watching You: Panoptic Control in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturAbstract : George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1949, is a vision of socialism gone wrong. The setting of Oceania is a world ruled over by an oligarchical collective, “The Party,” which wields absolute power through a formidable combination of surveillance technology and the operation of the principles of “panoptic control,” a concept drawn from Jeremy Bentham’s model prison design of the late 1700s and revived by Foucault in the mid 1970s. READ MORE
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5. Surveillance and Rebellion : A Foucauldian Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)Abstract : In Purple Hibiscus, Adichie describes what happens in a family when one person, Papa Eugene, takes control and completely subjugates other family members to his wishes and demands. The author shows the dire consequences his actions have on his family but also how those actions ultimately lead to his own destruction. READ MORE
