The Circle: A Utopian Society

A utopian is an idealistic reformer; they aim to achieve perfection throughout everything in society and even within human beings. An idealistic reformer is the practice of pursuing unrealistic ideals. There are many aspects of a utopia that are not possible to achieve in real life, the idea of a utopia is nice, but it is impossible. All that the society does i. The Circle looks at people who do not use technology as crazy. The novel presents outsiders as chaotic and messy; “outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected” (____). The Circle is a utopia, striving to achieve perfection throughout society. The Circle has created a utopia in the sense that everything is unified and perfect. Everything from the company, to their workers, to the food that they eat, and the way they dress. Mae was admiring how perfect everything was at the Circle. She explained one of the doctors as, “glamorous” and “no more than forty, with a black ponytail and luminous skin” (Eggars 151). Mae looked at the doctor in awe, “[scanning] the doctor for physical flaws” (Eggars 152). These quotations prove how the

The social circle monitors all of the employee’s posts and comments. For everything the employee participates in within their Zing account, they receive points, called a CE score. Making the Zing media as a sort of “competition” to see who can receive the highest Participation Rank. This point system is a way for the Circle to keep the employees addicted and interacting on the social media. Keeping all of society linked into social media creates a lack of involvement with the outside world. People have become addicted to these social media apps such as they have in real life to apps such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Keeping everyone interacting is a way for the Circle to keep tabs on society as they try to maintain