How Much More Do You Want? Haven't You Had Enough?

The Circle will never give up if nobody destroys it. It consumes humanity and its privacy just like how the shark consumed the seahorses and the octopus. The Circle is never satisfied, and it wants more of everything. "Intentionally or not, the octopus presented a challenge to its fate. The shark ripped off an arm, then seemed to get a mouthful of the octopus's head... Then, like a machine going about its work, the shark circled and stabbed until he had devoured the thousand babies, and the seaweed, and the coral, and the anemones" (481). After Victor fed the shark six large tuna, each ten pounds or more, it was still not satisfied. The shark was fed all day, but it was still ravenous. The shark, also known as the "transparent shark", symbolizes the circle. The scene featuring the Mariana Trench creatures symbolizes everything that goes on in the circle. The transparent shark consuming the defenseless creatures in the tank until they all disappeared, is how the circle will consume humanity until we have nothing left. Every Creature in that tank were devoured by a beast that turned them into ashes. If not dismantled, the circle will do the same to humankind and take over our lives and leave us with nothing.

Ty of all people finally realized the negative path the the circle has taken, and he was willing to end it. He was one of the "wise men" who created the company in the first place. He helped to build the circle but he did not intend for it to turn out the way it did. After building the circle, his intention was to destroy it and to slow it down. But in order to do that he needed Mae's help.

The shark will be the circle. It is transparent in its own way, and transparency is what makes the circle succeed in its business. The seahorses and the octopus will represent humanity since they were the preys. What the preys went through is similar to what we go through in reality. The preys tried to hide and protect themselves from the shark but unfortunately they were caught and torn into pieces. We try to keep our secrets to ourselves and our privacy undisturbed, but companies like the circle invade invade into our lives and make everything personal very common.

"We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you every think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day? Young people are creating ever-present daylight, and I think it'll burn us all alive. There will be no time to reflect, to sleep to cool" (434). Mercer's point is that, everyone deserves to know what is going on. For example, when information about Annie's family was made public, she completely had a breakdown.

The job of the circle is so harmful to so many people. Its transparency is using people like Mae to help it grow. The circle will overuse its employees, completely change who they are, make them loose what they love the most, and turn them into nothing/ashes.