Broken Relationship of people due to New Technology
In 21st century, technology is playing a major role in our everyday life. The technology is changing not only the world, but also the daily lives of each and every one of us. In other words, people are surrounded by the technology, and the technological advancements impact differently on our living. We can not deny benefits of advancements and conveniences we have gained from the new innovations. Even though the new technology have positive effects, it also presents with some unfortunate consequences for our personal life. In short, it can be said that the new technology can break down personal relationship.
Based on Dave Eggers, the author of a 2013 novel book called the Circle, the relationship …show more content…
Earlier in the book, Mae and Merce used to be a love relationship (75). Even though their love affair did not work out, they chose to be a friend with each other as they didn’t want to lose communication. This shows us that the relationship between Mae and Mercer was good until Mae decided to go transparent. After Mae is on transparent by applying small lens camera all the time, their relationship started to get worse. The reason was because Mercer was against the idea of transparency. He defended the idea of the privacy. Thus, Mercer give a letter to Mae’s mother for her in order to express his feeling about her transparency project. In the letter, Mercer is saying that “I cannot see you anymore, Mae…. I cannot be your friend and also part of your experiment….” (336). This quote shows that Mercer ended his relationship with Mae thanks to her transparency with the new technology. From here, we could see that the new technology has destroyed the relationship between Mae and Mercer. Other major event at the end of story was that while presenting a new technology called “SoulSearch”, Mae chose Mercer, her ex-boyfriend, and pursued him with drones’ camera views. As the result, Mercer drove his care in order to escape from the drones, but ended up driving his car off a bridge to kill himself (460). This shows that the new technology ended up not only their relationship, …show more content…
In the beginning of the article, Mae and Annie used to be a friend. We can see that they were close friend since they were roommates in college. One time, Annie took Mae to hospital and also slept next to her all night when Mae broke her jaw. Moreover, Annie found the place for Mae at her company, the Circle, to work with her (2). This indicates that they were in good and strong relationship. Later in the story, Mae, after being on transparent by applying a high-tech camera, starts to have a closed relation with three Wise Man, especially Bailey. Furthermore, she, with her transparency work of being on camera most of the time, appears to get more successful, popular, making her become an important person in the Crile. In this regards, Annie becomes increasingly unhappy and starts to feel jealous of Mae. Annie begins ignoring and arguing with her old friend. Based on the conversation between Mae and Annie in the story, Annie is telling Mae that “Mae. I don’t want this sound rude, but the best thing for me right now is to get back to my desk….” (354). This argument message shows us that Annie felt angry with Mae, causing damage to their relationship due to her transparency project. The tension between them gets higher after this conversation. Besides that we also can see that throughout the story, Mae only worry about her
In 21st century, technology is playing a major role in our everyday life. The technology is changing not only the world, but also the daily lives of each and every one of us. In other words, people are surrounded by the technology, and the technological advancements impact differently on our living. We can not deny benefits of advancements and conveniences we have gained from the new innovations. Even though the new technology have positive effects, it also presents with some unfortunate consequences for our personal life. In short, it can be said that the new technology can break down personal relationship.
Based on Dave Eggers, the author of a 2013 novel book called the Circle, the relationship …show more content…
Earlier in the book, Mae and Merce used to be a love relationship (75). Even though their love affair did not work out, they chose to be a friend with each other as they didn’t want to lose communication. This shows us that the relationship between Mae and Mercer was good until Mae decided to go transparent. After Mae is on transparent by applying small lens camera all the time, their relationship started to get worse. The reason was because Mercer was against the idea of transparency. He defended the idea of the privacy. Thus, Mercer give a letter to Mae’s mother for her in order to express his feeling about her transparency project. In the letter, Mercer is saying that “I cannot see you anymore, Mae…. I cannot be your friend and also part of your experiment….” (336). This quote shows that Mercer ended his relationship with Mae thanks to her transparency with the new technology. From here, we could see that the new technology has destroyed the relationship between Mae and Mercer. Other major event at the end of story was that while presenting a new technology called “SoulSearch”, Mae chose Mercer, her ex-boyfriend, and pursued him with drones’ camera views. As the result, Mercer drove his care in order to escape from the drones, but ended up driving his car off a bridge to kill himself (460). This shows that the new technology ended up not only their relationship, …show more content…
In the beginning of the article, Mae and Annie used to be a friend. We can see that they were close friend since they were roommates in college. One time, Annie took Mae to hospital and also slept next to her all night when Mae broke her jaw. Moreover, Annie found the place for Mae at her company, the Circle, to work with her (2). This indicates that they were in good and strong relationship. Later in the story, Mae, after being on transparent by applying a high-tech camera, starts to have a closed relation with three Wise Man, especially Bailey. Furthermore, she, with her transparency work of being on camera most of the time, appears to get more successful, popular, making her become an important person in the Crile. In this regards, Annie becomes increasingly unhappy and starts to feel jealous of Mae. Annie begins ignoring and arguing with her old friend. Based on the conversation between Mae and Annie in the story, Annie is telling Mae that “Mae. I don’t want this sound rude, but the best thing for me right now is to get back to my desk….” (354). This argument message shows us that Annie felt angry with Mae, causing damage to their relationship due to her transparency project. The tension between them gets higher after this conversation. Besides that we also can see that throughout the story, Mae only worry about her