Discipline and Punishment:an Interpretation of The Age of Innocence from the Perspective of Gaze Theory

According to Foucault's gaze theory, gaze and being gazed in The Age of Innocence reflect the essence of power in social relations. Under the yoke of the unshakable traditional custom of the old New York's upper classes, neither hero nor heroine can escape the fate of being manipulated. And eventually they became the spectator of the powerful community or male gaze, the object and the other, and are subject to their discipline and punishment.