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The first notable example is Charlotte Bronté's renowned novel Jane Eyre, in which the protagonist, Jane, is sent to a private school called Lowood Institution to escape her unloving aunt, Mrs. Reed. In this story, Burnett takes the reader from "a beautiful Indian bungalow" to the seemingly respectable environment of a London private school populated by "а set of dull, matter-of-fact young people" who are "accustomed to being rich and comfortable" (Burnett, 2009: 101). Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power-particularly the mechanism of control and normalization-provides a framework for understanding how Hailsham operates as a mechanism of power. [...]to its predecessors, where boarding schools serve as harsh testing grounds for fortitude and perseverance, molding protagonists into morally upright citizens, Hailsham functions as a disciplinary apparatus designed to create a human-like environment for clones, conditioning them to accept their inevitable fate as organ donors.

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Title
From Brontë to Ishiguro: The Dystopian Evolution of the Boarding School Motif
Volume
16
Issue
1
Pages
45-54
Number of pages
11
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Section
THEORY, HISTORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Publisher
Universiteatea "Aurel Vlaicu" Arad Editura / Publishing House
Place of publication
Arad
Country of publication
Romania
ISSN
20676557
e-ISSN
22472371
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Journal Article
ProQuest document ID
3230276661
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Last updated
2025-12-07
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