Disciplinary Techniques forBehaviour Control in Lois Lowry’s The Giver

Abstract

This 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.