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Item Disciplinary Techniques forBehaviour Control in Lois Lowry’s The Giver(Department of English, 2018) Basnet, BikramThis research is an analysis of vast mechanism used to control and shape individual behavioursin the dystopian society of Lois Lowry’s The Giver.The individual in the society behaves the way authority wants.This research examines how the methods used by the people in authority make individuals conform to the rules and regulations by rendering them docile. By using Foucault’s four techniques of discipline and the concept of Panopticon developed by Jeremy Bentham,this research work reveals that individuals are kept in constant surveillance to monitor their activities all the time. They are distributed and partitioned giving interchangeable ranks to ensure them to be self-regulating meanwhile punishing them for not obeying the rule imposed.Item Exercising of Power Over Body in The Movie The Truman Show(Department of English, 2022) Dahal, SitaThe Truman Show (1998) illustrates the situation and experiences of Truman Burbank and issue of constant surveillance which is used as a form of entertainment for the masses. Truman Burbank is the subject matter for the reality show, whose life is broadcasted by the creator of the show by using five thousand hidden cameras to the millions of viewers and he is totally unknown about this. The theoretical framework of this research paper combines theories of Panopticon, hyperreality and cinematography. The theory of hyperreality focuses on how meaning is misrepresented by media. The media broadcast the Burbank’s life experiences but he is surrounded by false reality. Theory of cinematography discusses to explore how the use of different cinematography technique such as lighting, music, camera angle to create that what viewers are watching is real. Similarly, the theory of panopticon focuses on how a panoptic framework would impact on individual identity and how Seaheaven Island serves function of a panopticon. The main conclusion to be drawn from this work is that, surveillance is an element that is used as a disciplinary power and it tends to be of the quiet kind. Hyperreality is used to misrepresent the meaning of the story through media to the audiences in the show that they cannot figure out what is real and what is not real? It blurs the line between reality and fiction. Key Words: panopticon, surveillance, simulacra, hyperreality, media control.