Elimination of privacy is another prominent motif that is explored through these novels. Initially, the society in The Circle is almost identical to the readers’ society. Yet as the novel progresses, Mae slowly transforms into the company’s ideal employee, gradually brainwashed into believing that self-exposure is ‘the right thing’ to do, as “privacy is theft”. The horror is accentuated due to the similarity between the society in the novel and the society of the readers, hinting a possibility of this occurring in their society as well. The exposure of private life are not forced upon the citizens, hence making it seem as if it is still possible for the citizens to live freely. However, the novel implies the extreme difficulty to remain uninvolved
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Eventually, Mae and the Circle drive him to death, but the act is justified, claiming that they were “trying to help a very disturbed, antisocial young man”. (Eggers, 462) Mae’s parents also become distant from her, in order to protect their own deserved privacy. A student at Penn University, Ana Schwartz, has published in a review that Mae “loses some of her earliest and dearest friends” along with creating “ irreconcilable distance between herself and her family”(Schwartz, Ana), which provokes the thought that the citizens of this society continuing to use technology the way they do today, can lead to a social dystopia.The fear builds up during a scene at the very end of the novel, when Mae sits beside her unconscious best friend, Annie. “What was going on in that head of hers? It was exasperating, really...not knowing. It was an affront, a deprivation, to herself and to the …show more content…
Yet, none would truly want to constantly expose their thoughts, as readers may understand. It may be convenient to communicate private feelings, reducing misinterpretation, but all thoughts unwillingly mass-communicated out to public would be problematic. This concept is certain to make the readers value the privacy of their own thoughts, but at the same time, fear that this thought-reading may spread in their own society one day, if they are not careful with the development of technology. As opposed to the society in The Circle, 1984’s society has limited information and freedom is almost non-existent. The citizens are constantly monitored through cameras set nearly everywhere, even in their private bedrooms. Even if it is only a mere thought, a private diary entry, or words during sleep-talking, every action is monitored accordingly that no one denounces Big Brother. This gives the readers an impression of the citizens always being observed. Winston and Julia, who commit to an illegal relationship, were watched while completely unaware of
Eventually, Mae and the Circle drive him to death, but the act is justified, claiming that they were “trying to help a very disturbed, antisocial young man”. (Eggers, 462) Mae’s parents also become distant from her, in order to protect their own deserved privacy. A student at Penn University, Ana Schwartz, has published in a review that Mae “loses some of her earliest and dearest friends” along with creating “ irreconcilable distance between herself and her family”(Schwartz, Ana), which provokes the thought that the citizens of this society continuing to use technology the way they do today, can lead to a social dystopia.The fear builds up during a scene at the very end of the novel, when Mae sits beside her unconscious best friend, Annie. “What was going on in that head of hers? It was exasperating, really...not knowing. It was an affront, a deprivation, to herself and to the …show more content…
Yet, none would truly want to constantly expose their thoughts, as readers may understand. It may be convenient to communicate private feelings, reducing misinterpretation, but all thoughts unwillingly mass-communicated out to public would be problematic. This concept is certain to make the readers value the privacy of their own thoughts, but at the same time, fear that this thought-reading may spread in their own society one day, if they are not careful with the development of technology. As opposed to the society in The Circle, 1984’s society has limited information and freedom is almost non-existent. The citizens are constantly monitored through cameras set nearly everywhere, even in their private bedrooms. Even if it is only a mere thought, a private diary entry, or words during sleep-talking, every action is monitored accordingly that no one denounces Big Brother. This gives the readers an impression of the citizens always being observed. Winston and Julia, who commit to an illegal relationship, were watched while completely unaware of