Seeing a familiar arena from the accused side transforms it into menace.

Evidence

Courtrooms were familiar places to Schlichtmann. He never entered one without feeling a sense of anticipation, a pleasing surge of energy and nervous excitement. But he’d never before seen a courtroom from the perspective of the accused. He might at this moment have been in handcuffs. The cavernous, stolid old courtroom looked gloomy, and the witness stand, where the judge would have him sit today, seemed menacing. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 487

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the usual trial-lawyer bravado trope; the courtroom as a setting whose meaning flips with standpoint, useful for any scene written from inside a hostile institution. — connects to: Interrogation space itself becomes a weapon turned against the Muslim suspect.; Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315

Broader Connections

• Interrogation space itself becomes a weapon turned against the Muslim suspect. #exemplifies (0.85)
• Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315