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

Circle is even trying to achieve perfection within their employees. Perfection is everything at the Circle.
The social circle is a way to keep everyone in and out of the Circle connected.

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

perfection.
The clinic is one way that the Circle is striving to achieve perfection within its workers. Everything about the clinic was seemingly perfect; when you walked in, it wasn’t just a standard doctor’s office. The walls were lined with shelves of health drinks and health foods. The cabinets in the doctor’s office were perfectly lined up and did not have any handles or knobs; Mae seemed in awe of the office. The doctor spoke to Mae in a cheery voice, as if nothing would ever go wrong. The Circle requires all employees to get bi weekly checkups. These checkups include, “blood work, cognitive tests, reflexes, a quick eye exam, and a rotating retinue of more exotic tests, like MRIs” (Eggars 154). Doctors require regular bi weekly checkups to monitor the health of their coworkers, making sure that they catch any illnesses before they get too intense or severe. Although the Circle tries to ensure health for everyone, they violate the privacy of their employees while doing so. The doctor asked Mae to drink a green liquid, Mae did so without question. After Mae had drank the drink, the doctor told her that she has drank a sensor chip to collect data such as, “heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, heat flux, caloric intake, sleep duration, sleep quality, digestive efficiency” and so on (Eggars 155). Doctors in the Circle are violating privacy to make sure everything is perfect. The doctors at the Circle must get all bits and pieces of information about their coworkers to achieve a utopia because having, “incomplete information creates gaps in [the Circle’s] knowledge, and medically speaking, gaps in . . . knowledge create mistakes and omissions” (Eggars 156). Gaps in knowledge would result in imperfection.
The Circle associated the outside world with failure, struggle, and filth. In the Circle however, these associations also apply. The Circle tries so hard at achieving domination and perfection that they go overboard with all that they do within the company. The Circle is so consumed with the idea of perfection that they are actually also failing as a company. By the end of the novel, Mae realizes how corrupt the company is. Once she comes to this realization Kalden says to her, “I know everything that’s ever happened here, Mae, and there’s plenty that’s gone on that would convince anyone, no matter how blind, that the Circle needs to be dismantled” (Eggars 491). Mae wants to leave the Circle and take it down with her as she goes. Soon everyone would be able to see the corruption within the company. The Circle tried to create a utopia, but achieving total perfection is ultimately impossible.