e in his life when regarded through his retreat into the work itself? Certainly, Ivan creates a knowledge if the disciplinary function of the time without a true understanding of the effects of discipline upon his own life. His family being a binding obligation of sorts, Ivan finds himself trapped within the social framework provided him by the actions which he has created through his education as a social creature as well as his marriage and procreation with a woman outside the boundaries of true love. The absence of this love is apparent in all aspects of his existence. Without any passion for his family life, his social standing or his work (outside of the idea of his obsessive drive to achieve what he is inexorably destined to fail in his work), he finds a trapping the proportions of which lead to his impending death and the pain there in. socially, Ivan attacks the ideological question of true happiness. What constitutes this happiness? What creates a drive to become something more than what society expects in order to create a structure within which one can survive as a successful individual? On a personal level, Ivan fails to create for himself an environment conducive to the romantic ideal of self-fulfillment. However, in forsaking this ideal, Ivan conforms to the sociological norm as prescribed by the standards of the time. In other words, the position into which Ivan conforms is constructed completely of ideals provided him by a sociological discourse as conducted, created and adhered to by the upper social structure of the time period. This structure is regulated by the ever-changing discursive value revolving around necessary normalizations as dictated by the structure itself, in essence, creating for itself a form of disciplinary rule and power structure to be adhered to or disregarded by its members. My intent here is to examine this normalization process, or the process by which we conduct certain behaviour and the level...
