David Egger’s novel The Circle holds so many similarities with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. The book is almost a continuation on Nineteen Eighty-Four, but at a different stage. What other similarities and also difference do they have? How is the Egger’s novel The Circle relevant to today’s society?
The Circle is presented as a world dominating company that is looking for the next big thing to take over the world. Eggers’s book intriguers a world where having person privacy and believing in it is seen as a crime. The Circle also renames each portion of the company after an historic era to make it less impersonal and more cooperative. The circlers are people who work within the company. These people follow everything the company states and does. At the company, you can be transparent, which means everything you do and say is almost all the time recorded and viewed of people from the entire world. The reality of it is that once you associate yourself with the company, it is very hard to come back from it, because you get told so many propaganda stories on how the Circle is trying to save the world. It is almost as Nineteen Eighty-Four, but bigger and more powerful.
In both The Circle and Nineteen Eighty-Four, we have a protagonist who doesn’t really change so much throughout the stories. In The Circle we get to follow …show more content…
The Circle works hard every day to not let any information, whether it is a big or a small one, to get away. This makes it harder for anyone to get away from it. The most interesting part of all of this is how the use of technology evolves at Eggers’s novel. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is only the government uses surveillance camera on their population, and at the Circle there are regular people, highly intelligent people, who develop these highly advanced technologies that help the company to stimulate their