“They are like so many cages, so many small theaters, in which each actor is alone, perfectly individualized and constantly visible.” (185) In his essay, Panopticism, Michael Foucault explains the concept of an omniscient Panopticon and the power it wields on the edifice of society. Foucault begins his essay with an allegory about a plague town in the late seventeenth century in which he describes a society in which a few people control the majority with almost absolute power. However, the system is in no way perfect. This is merely a normal town turned into a sort of prison. And for that reason, it has many flaws. Some of the main faults included the fact that the ‘prisoners’ were able to see the ‘guards’ or the syndic in this case. This allowed them to know when they were being watched thus giving the guard less power. Another problem was the fact that the houses were occupied by multiple people. They had the capacity to collude this way and that is a problem. This system also required multiple syndics to watch the whole of the town; which is merely an imperfection. “Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power”(187) After explaining the concept of the Panopticon, Foucault illustrates its effect. Because of the Panopticon’s layout, one guard-invisible to the prisoners-is able to peer out and see any of the inmates at any time. This allusion results in a sort of omniscient system in which any inmate could be watched at any time and therefore assumes constant monitoring and complies with the rules to avoid the chastisement, which is unknown yet assumed by the reader. “The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheral ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.” (187) Foucault moves on to men