Surveillance In Dave Eggers The Circle

Surveillance is a huge issue in the near future society. People constantly being watched and monitored all the time will create a huge division. Crime will be decreased but people will be prone to no privacy. Mae Holland, a worker at The Circle, becomes transparent and gives up her privacy to become one of the most popular and well respected workers at The Circle. She ruins her relationships and becomes very lonely having to rely on men to comfort her. Mae does not realize what surveillance is doing to her. In the novel, The Circle, By Dave Eggers, one can see that when Mae or any Circle worker is under surveillance they are influenced to change their actions and behaviours in spite of what others may think to create a safer and more powerful society.
However, with the SeeChange cameras all over the world makes the Circle extremely powerful. They are able to monitor and see everything and use that information to their advantage. The power Mae ends up getting really changes who Mae is. She lets it get the best of her. She is overcome by the transparency and only cares about what her audience thinks and has to say. Mae …show more content…
Mae gets so caught up in the transparency, Mercer does not want to be associated with her anymore causing him to disappear, her parents turn off the cameras in their house, and her and Annie even drift apart. Mercer even tells her “ communicating through a screen “ ( ).She even starts to seperate from the actual Circle workers as well. She never associates with anyone from customer experience anymore and people do not find things out from her directly. Everything comes from the feed she is on all the time. Mae gets so caught up in the transparency she does not realize how it is affecting her and her loved ones. She becomes a new person who is on a powertrip and who becomes completely uninvolved with her