By the time you begin the major paper, you will have read, discussed, and presented on Michel Foucault’s “Docile Bodies,” “Panopticism,” Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the scrivener” and the movie Equilibrium and Matrix.
Foucault’s text will serve as a default text for a comparative reading. For this 6-7 page, formal, academic paper, you should first choose one of either “Docile Bodies” or “Panopticism” as a default text and discuss three objects of inquiry. the objects you should use include the following: Equilibrium; Matrix; “Bartleby, the Scrivener”; if there is any other examples of movie, TV series or novels/short stories you’d like to use, choose one. c.f.) Smallville, The Handmaid’s Tale, Invisible Man, Cube(1997), Fight Club (1999) etc.
Then you will be expected to critically analyze your selected objects of inquiry and persuasively articulate how it reveals something significant about Foucault’s text. The possible critical questions for your major paper include:
1) How does Foucault’s notion of “panopticism” or “docile bodies” function and influence us? How do their disciplinary mechanisms contribute to constructing our social identities?
2) Our body is the site, where the various issues such as language, race, gender, sexuality and recognition take place and operate. And the identity of a person is affected by those issues that are already inscribed on his/her body. The literary texts and films we watched invites us to think about the true meaning of our bodies. what make our bodies normal and visible in our society? How can we secure the rights of “invisible” or “abnormal” bodies under social laws and conditions?
please choose one of the two questions and analyze it. However, please note that this major paper is not only about Foucault’s arguments themselves. It is your argument utilizing his ideas.
your major paper should:
identify clearly three examples of object of inquiry.
make a complex claim about your selected objects of inquiry and how they connect with “Panopticism” or “Docile Bodies.”
Be supported by valid evidences from “Panopticism” or “Docile Bodies” and your additional sources, using quotes and paraphrasing in MLA style
use rhetorical strategies that are proper to academic writing to argue why your object of inquiry matters
sustain that complex claim throughout the paper with effective, related textual evidence and argumentation
properly cite quotations and provide a proper MLA bibliography
Formate:
6 pages excluding a works cited page
double-spaces with 1 inch margin, 12 points Times New Roman font
your name, course, paper number, and submission date in the top left corner on the first page, and your last name and page number on the top right corner of other pages
a works cited page in the correct MLA cited format
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