The Circle Themes

In The Circle, millions of people like Mae Holland believe that the Circle's technologies will help to create social justice on a global scale. Under the guidance—um, yeah, let's call it misguida...

Isn't it just the worst when something—a person, an organization, a corporation, whatever—promises to make you more free but actually binds you down with all of its rules and requirements? Like...

In The Circle, those who subscribe to the corporation's ideologies believe that human beings have a basic human right to access every piece of information that exists in the world. Secrets are lies...

Folks, The Circle is a dystopian novel, and if you know anything about dystopian novels, you know you're going to find a lot of unethical and immoral behavior in here that is misperceived as goodne...

Whether it's exploring Circlers' insatiable cravings for data or their CEO's voracious desire for money and power, The Circle has more than a few things to say about greed. Throughout the novel, Da...

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has come up more than once in this unit, and that may be because Dave Eggers had a hand in some recent retellings of that classic children's story. But on...

Sure, The Circle may be set in a pretty specific geographical and cultural region of America—the San Francisco Bay Area—but the novel is about a whole lot more than just Silicon Valley. Check i...

The Circle has a 24-year-old woman as a protagonist, and although many readers might be excited to see a young woman taking center stage in a novel about the tech world, Mae Holland is so naïve, m...