This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. ... In this extract, the animal farm seems to turn into a Foucauldian panopticon where the animals display unwavering obedience, so much so that they have developed a sense of self-control for the sake of the oppressive rule of Napoleon. ... The relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed in the farm rests upon the dichotomy of visibility of the animals and the invisibility of Napoleon, that is of the power of the latter and the powerlessness of the former. ... The inscrip...

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