The Circle By Dave Eggers: An Analysis

“The Circle,” by Dave Eggers is a novel that centers around a girl named Mae Holland, who works at an internet technology company called The Circle that pursues to control flow of information in turn they can takeover the whole world. Mae unknowingly take part of the operation to complete the Circle and eventually be the face of it despite hurting her some of her friends and family members along the way. Many people closed to Mae such as her ex-boyfriend Mercer and her mysterious partner Kalden(who really is Ty and is one of the Three Wisemen) struggle to convince her to stop, but she goes on to help the corporation believing that she is contributing to the greater good. On the outside, the Circle professes as a community of transparency that
Ty(one of the Wisemen) mentions that Stenton(the other Wisemen) “saw a connection” between “their work and politics, and between politics and control”(Eggers 489) With this in mind, in the novel, the Circle is near its peak where they have created technology to monitor people and control most of the information that the world receive since they wiped out almost all of their competitors. Once they control people’s knowledge of the world, they could shape their perceptions to their benefits. They can provide people a false sense of a perfect world, and eliminate people who goes against them. Ty warns Mae about the destruction that the Circle could cause when they know everything about everyone; he mentions that if “you can control the flow of information, you can control everything” and you will create a “mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes”(Eggers 487). As demonstrated with the transparency with politicians. They are encouraged to wear a seechange cameras with live audios and live stream everything on the internet for everyone to see. When a politician opposed the Circle’s ideas or call them out for being a corporate company that takes advantage of other people for profits(which they are), Stenton places “incriminating stuffs” on their computers(Eggers 488). This could happen to anyone else that goes against the company and their operation. The perfect utopia is modelled by the vision of the Circle and no one else has a say in