Genre
Philosophy, Non-fiction.
Setting and Context
Modern Era.
Narrator and Point of View
Michel Foucault is the third-person narrator.
Tone and Mood
Deconstructive, allegorical, philosophical, explanatory, and factual.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist and antagonist are excluded.
Major Conflict
Reconciliation of the three predominant epistemes applied in human sciences.
Climax
Man’s ability to redefine and reinvent himself through the eras.
Foreshadowing
Foucault employs flashbacks in describing philosophies of past centuries.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
Allusions to art (such as painting), allusions to nature (sky and flora and fauna), and allusions to religion.
Imagery
Things, be it plants or animals, communicate with each other, which creates order; the order, which is comparable to syntax, is imperative in their existence.
Paradox
N/A
Parallelism
The components in the sky are parallel to those on the earth's surface.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A ‘blind spot’ denotes invisibility.
Personification
Plants are personified: they can hold secrets.
