The promised diversity of penalties collapsed instantly into uniform imprisonment.

Evidence

In under twenty years, in any case, the principle so clearly formulated in the Constituent Assembly, of specific, appropriate, effective penalties, constituting, in each case, a lesson for all, became the law of detention for every offence of any importance, except those requiring the death penalty. … The diversity, so solemnly promised, is reduced in the end to this grey, uniform penalty. Indeed, at the time, there were deputies who expressed surprise that, instead of establishing a natural relation between offences and penalties, a quite different plan had been adopted: ‘So that if I have betrayed my country, I go to prison; if I have killed my father, I go to prison; every imaginable offence is punished in the same uniform way. One might as well see a physician who has the same remedy for all ills’ (Chabroud, 618). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 189

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s core Orwell concern — a single uniform mechanism (prison, telescreen) replaces many tailored ones, and subjects internalize it as the only thinkable form.