Subjectivity can be found in almost every aspect of society; past, present and future. In other words, whether it is a ruler and his empire, a government and its citizens, or even students subject to the rules of a school, people have always been in a condition of submission. In this position, they are the ones who lack power and control, while those to whom they are subject have the power and control. For this reason, the subject can act accordingly towards whoever or whatever he is. In Michel Foucault's essay, Panopticism, he argues that the structure of the Panopticon is similar to the power structure of our society and ultimately falls under the concept of subjectivity. The Panopticon is a model of a prison consisting of a large room surrounded by cells for prisoners. There is a tower in the center which allows a guard to monitor the prisoners and maintain order among them. But the most important thing is that the guard is not visible from the outside to the prisoners. Foucault states that this creates the allusion that prisoners are always being watched. By letting prisoners know that they are being watched, but not when they are, it gives the guards ultimate power over the prisoner. For this reason, prisoners behave and follow the rules to avoid being punished by the guard. The guard doesn't even have to be present for the work allusion. Another example of this effect is cameras in a store. People know there are cameras that usually stop people from stealing because they know they are being watched. Overall, the Panopticon created the Panopticism; the theory that when someone is being monitored, they have the freedom to do anything but act a certain way... middle of paper ...... the company is building Sojourner Truth so that to be what she doesn't think she deserves to be. She is a woman and wants to be treated the same way. Yet she is simply subjugated and watched over by the Panopticon of a corrupt society. In his chapter on Panopticism, Michel Foucault states: "The Panopticon is a marvelous machine in which, whatever use we wish to make of it, produces homogeneous effects of power." He would say that, despite the corruption of the use of panopticism in 1851, it existed surely and painfully In his essay, he states that the Panopticon therefore runs no risk that the increase in power created by the panoptic machine could degenerate into tyranny. This is similar to the case of. Sojourner Truth, where society, especially in the South, viewed blacks and women as inferior. This use of panopticism placed an entire race and gender under subjectivity...