DISCIPLINARY POWER IN DENNIS KELLY'S AFTER THE END

Abstract

Foucault develops his theory by arguing that the dominant form of power in contemporary society is disciplinary and that our understanding of power falls to identify how power actually functions. This disciplinary power creates subjected and practiced bodies. He believes that power can change the behavior of individuals. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the role of disciplinary power in modern society. It concentrates on Kelly's play After the End in the light of the disciplinary power that justifies using punishment to prevent repeating the same behavior. This play reveals that using imprisonment and probation to punish a person is a way to change the behavior of this person in the sense that he/ she will not be able to identify himself.