![]() This article will observe how it is through shame that the main character, Mae Holland, is manipulated and rendered vulnerable into accepting the Circle’s endeavor of transparency. These truths in slogans, that so resemble the world of 1984, rely on the public’s understanding of their own insecurities and shame and their desire to have a better and fulfilling life. ![]() In case of The Circle, the right approaches are verbalized as: ‘SECRETS ARE LIES’, ‘SHARING IS CARING’ and ‘PRIVACY IS THEFT’ (Eggers, 2013, 224). The way the company achieves the collection of knowledge largely relies on the implementation of a belief, that, given the right approaches and utilities, humankind can be disciplined into perfection. Its mission in the novel is to achieve absolute knowledge so that nothing can stay hidden and thus hinder the progress of human potential. ![]() The circle is a multi-branch tech company that unifies their users' digital information, ranging from social to financial, into a single account that operates from within their system. ![]() While in Orwell's 1984 the author develops the idea of the fear of the State, Eggers’ fear concerns the conglomerate. Whereas most early writings of dystopian futures rely on surveillance through terror and punishment, David Egger’s The Circle is a true exponent of 21st-century exhibitionism. ![]()
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