Dave Eggers The Circle #2 by Tyke O'Brien

Dr. O'B

tobrien28 — 2024-01-30 17:00:07 UTC

Privacy is theft is telling us.....

Amelia, Olivia T.

2024-01-30 17:10:17 UTC

Yes, Eggers is commenting on corporate slogans. He's commenting on how companies use their words to manipulate us into thinking the things they want us to. Privacy is theft is a comment on the way that social media opens our lives up to everyone.

Dylan

2024-01-30 17:10:48 UTC

His true motive is not to have people live better lives but to have control over other's lives. He twists his words to create a rhetorical perspective that portrays those who refuse to forfeit their privacy as evil. It is truly a dystopian society where people must document every moment and those who do not publish their entire life their privacy to an almost dictator-like foundation are evil

Sofia and Naomi

2024-01-30 17:11:02 UTC

Eamon pushes Mae to share the experience she had in which privacy and secrecy led her to deprive others of the amazing things she witnessed on her adventure. Eamon makes sure that Mae says everything exactly how he wants it, so that the audience understands the exact idea he's projecting. He wants to strip them of their right to privacy by creating this myth that privacy is theft. Eggar uses this story to portray the common practice where companies, the government, and other institutions take basic human rights and twist them into harmful practices. They project these ideas in many ways using propaganda and on social media platforms where many people can be easily influenced. In a way, Eamon sort of guilt-trips the circlers into thinking that your privacy takes away from others.

Olivia L

2024-01-30 17:41:09 UTC

Eggers made this world a dystopia in which people's right to privacy got abolished by Eamon, and through the rhetoric to make the Circlers believe that having privacy makes them immoral and thus willingly give up their rights to privacy.

Eamon in this case sort of represents the "government", he is trying to manipulate the Circlers to think and act as he wants to. He did this through the propaganda of these slogans, and by distorting some logic, brainwash Circlers like Mae into willingly giving up their right of privacy. Well, Mae is a successful case since she happily embraced that having privacy is a horrible thing and called giving up privacy, "Enlightenment". It is interesting of how, when Mae established the slogans, she, "blinked back tears, seeing it all there". And wondered, "has she really thought of all that by herself"? All these might not be her true will, but the ideas were what Eamon imposed on her without she realizing it. And this is what a lot of government, corporations, etc do to their citizens/employees. They often did this through propaganda or claiming that people have moral obligations to do something while they actually don't.

But another observation could be that Eamon represents the social media itself. We are in the era in which information is exploding and the technology is advancing. And because everything happens on the media and everyone shares their thoughts, we, like Mae, were pushed into thinking that we should also share everything we can. (And maybe that could also link back to Thoreau, that we should not be caring about every single thing on the Internet?)

Allison & Logan & Nick

2024-01-31 22:04:04 UTC

The Circle is a dystopian environment that Eamon fosters where he establishes manipulative slogans. He uses the rhetoric of pathos and manipulates Mae and other Circlers into believing they are entitled to share every bit of information about their personal life. He uses propaganda to promote his beliefs. On a display of options, he only spotlights one, keeping the scope of options available to Circlers small. He villainizes those who choose to not share everything and tries to make people feel bad by using the example of others who don't have equal access to experiences. He says "if you care about your fellow human beings, you share with them" which tries to make Circlers including Mae, believe that they are bad people for not sharing experiences. He tries to twist words to gaslight Mae into believing what she did was selfish.

Jude

2024-01-31 22:04:53 UTC

Eggers comments on how propaganda serves not just as a statement, but as a weapon of conformity. A prime example of this weapon in action is in the final passage where Mae is blinking back tears from her ingenuity : "She blinked back tears, seeing it all there. Had she really though of all that herself?" (158)

*NOT DONE

Aubrey and Derrick

2024-01-31 22:05:29 UTC

Egger uses satirical rhetoric to show us the influence of corporate slogans, especially by large powerful companies. Eamon manipulation and propaganda shows us the importance of privacy and having our thoughts within digital spaces. Egger shows us how life would be if we prioritized the sharing of collective information instead of personal privacy.

Leena

2024-01-31 22:08:37 UTC

It's telling us that the privacy that Mae has is creating a problem because she is taking something away form other people and that she is a bad person. He's using rhetoric to convince people that their deserved privacy is robbing other people. He tries to gaslight and persuade Mae that she has caused a divide between her and everyone else, and that she is at fault for other peoples disadvantages. She did have the opportunity to share her adventure with the world she also has the right to choose what she shares with the world and what she chooses to keep to herself. The world is trying to guilt her into feeling like she took something from people who don't have the same access to what she has but that is not her fault. She is the only one who can make the decision of what she puts out into the world.

Camila

2024-01-31 22:11:54 UTC

Eggers uses deliberative rhetoric to show the impact that slogans coming from an authoritative figure can have. Eamon uses these slogans as a form of propaganda to try and convince the Circlers that his slogans and beliefs are the real, or only truth within this dystopian environment.

Mason the Pal, Louie

2024-01-31 22:19:29 UTC

Social media is a way of persuasion, influence, manipulation, etc. Eggers comments on corporate slogans. He talks about how companies use products to change and alter the minds of people to believe that they are self conscience of themselves and their usage of social media to hold their secrets lying deep within.