The Circle:Collective Submission to Exploitation The most dangerous things appear unassuming, mundane, and perhaps utopian: “It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God” (Bradbury). As modern technology becomes more prevalent in society, the lines between the individual and society blur. People become more connected in every way. That connection facilitates the propagation of ever more developed technologies, altering the social fabric across the world, for better or for worse. Dave Eggers’s The Circle is a thrilling commentary on privacy and community in the digital age. Largely, Eggers uses the characters and varied symbolism to indicate the dangers of a destructive, cult-like spread of technology masked as progress in the modern era, because as Bradbury warns, oppression can develop out of the misguided ideals of an infatuated public.
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Of course, that mindest expanded from a contained group, the Circlers, to the majority. Eggers’s commentary on the sensationalization of technology through The Circle is apparent through its disturbing totalitarianism, corporate power overcoming the government, and the lack of civil liberties afforded to the public as a result; there becomes no choice or possibility for
Of course, that mindest expanded from a contained group, the Circlers, to the majority. Eggers’s commentary on the sensationalization of technology through The Circle is apparent through its disturbing totalitarianism, corporate power overcoming the government, and the lack of civil liberties afforded to the public as a result; there becomes no choice or possibility for