Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Literary Elements

Genre

History and social theory

Setting and Context

France, England, and United States, 1757-1850

Narrator and Point of View

Tone and Mood

Protagonist and Antagonist

Major Conflict

Climax

Foreshadowing

Understatement

Allusions

Imagery

Paradox

Parallelism

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Personification