While the time, place and environment are different in both novels, different narratives are enforced to refer to the reality of those worlds and societies. Barnita Bagchi emphasizes this point in her work The Politics of the (im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered, in which she states that “there has always been a transaction and exchange between utopia or dystopia as imaginative possibility and as a real-life actualization” (Bagchi 4). As it is, the narrative is the reflection of the society’s condition, which illustrates the novel’s power on the level of analogy between the novel and the history of events in the …show more content…
But, the society in Dave Eggers’ The Circle takes a different path; it depicts an active society in a form of company, the Circle, which actively supports its own oppression. This idea is further explained in the next section. The contemporary society, Nicolas Carr argues, “expose[s] personal information far more frequently and extensively than previous generations. Due in part to the ever growing social media landscape, contemporary society has publicly shared more details about themselves than any previous generation” (Carr 82). That is to say, we would be reporting on ourselves, which is now obviously very true with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and the growing dependant on mobile phones, which now know exactly where we are and some are even being used to monitor our moves. This rapid development in media forms has started to shift the narrative towards depicting a society from passively undergoing oppression, in case of 1984, to actively supporting the systems that allow for their oppression, in case of The