At first, the chapter dealt with showing a brief example of disciplinary at the end of the 17th century, while the plague occurred. To sum up, the residents were under the absolute authority and obedience of the hierarchy, in order get healed from the disease (Foucault: 195-197).
The philosopher follows with Bentham´s Panopticon which is an observation building in order to achieve full disciplinary over the prisoners,“(…) in each cell a madman, a patient, a condemned man, a worker or a schoolboy“ ( Foucault: 200). Still, for the prisoners, it was not sure if they were watched. “(…) in the peripheric