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I just learned what a panopticon is. And, I thought, if the School Master's tower had more windows than one, Rafal would be living in some version of a panopticon, as the prison guard. That sounds odd, but when you think about it, even the students that want to be there at the Schools are prisoners. The only way out is through graduating, through failing or death, or "through a fairy tale." And, no one had ever seen the School Master. Everyone believed Sophie and Agatha were liars.

Here's a book 1 quote to succinctly prove Rafal's got surveillance over everything, even if we already knew that:

“Neither side could hear the laughter from the tower, half shadowed, lording over them all” (339).