Dave Egger Totalitarianism

The analysis of how The Circle exerts totalitarian control over people by making privacy matters public
Introduction
In Dave Egger’s “The Circle”, it illustrates a tech firm, The Circle attempts to transform the overall world into a giant social circle. To attain this goal, The Circle exerts totalitarian control over people by privacy matters public. This paper primarily analyzes the concept and main characteristics of totalitarian. In relation to the key words like absolute authority, powerful systematic control and comprehensive supervision institution, the totalitarian forces people to give up themselves and integrate into the totalitarian system. What’s more, the process of how The Circle forces people to give up their privacy and turn …show more content…
The Circle attempts to force its employees to get acquainted with friends and overt their life experiences on line. The Circle wants to increase clients of the “Circle” and grasp everything of people. To achieve this goal, The Circle carries the “Mind Control” on both its employees and the clients. As illustrated in the novel, “At the meeting, the superiors declares that the employees, you all, ought to share yourself with the external world, furthermore, you all are desired to share this idea to the clients”. In essence, the corporation, The Circle uses the “Mind Control’ to convince the employees of its purpose. Originality, Mae thinks that this idea is incredible. Nevertheless, with constant brainwashing and threats, Mae begins to surrender. “By not participating in Circle, Mae's supervisors tell her, she is not only failing to join the Circle community but also failing to document her experiences and observations in ways that would be useful to the world as a whole”, this part reveals that The Circle controls and brainwashes Mae through totalitarian hierarchy. The Circle not only instill a series of complete values system to the employees and clients, but also The Circle creates a series of false to force people to give up their right of privacy. In actual, The Circle purposes that people should open their privacy information and life experiences on “The Circle”. The …show more content…
At the same time, The Circle intends to govern people’s spirit. Consequently, with the banner of “enlarging our world into a sharing social circle”, The Circle is eager to grasp everything of people and utilize everything in lives to build up a giant informational net. Under this informational net it established, The Circle could manipulate people’s self-consciousness with supervision and obvious oriental guide in life-selection. As reflected by Mae in this psychological description, “Modern employment tactics create the illusion that our employer is our friend. This fabrication empowers the employer while denying the employed the right to vocalize and protest dissatisfaction of their working conditions. “You’re not going to stick around and help out? I thought we were a team? I thought we were friends?”, The Circle uses the spiritual guide to agglomerate its employees and control their spirit, making them lose their freedom in selecting, revolting and self-thinking. Similarly, as indicated above, the totalitarianism emphasizes on including people’s lives within the process of its ruling, the final goal is to enslave people and control people’s spirit. Thus, this evidence shows that The Circle’s control on people is