In the interview of Jacques Ellul, he explains why society has become irresponsible because of the advanced technological innovations. He claims that people are part of a big chain that technology has developed, and they have just become one part of a big project and have little to no responsibility. He uses an example of building a dam, where different departments have only one task to complete rather than a whole project to complete. Technology is getting out of peoples hands, it is advancing at a fast pace where tasks are getting easier and requiring less labor from humans. For example, auto pilot cars are becoming this new trend on cars that companies are implementing in their cars so that the drivers wont have to do much work when they want to transport from one place to another in car. We can see the theme of power come into play right here, since technology and the people evolving this technology have the power over everyone to change a society as a whole. Their power is immense since technology can invent something like new robots to take over many jobs and they can easily affect many by making them unemployed. Then the rate of unemployment would rise so much, because technology would take over the labor force.

The connection Jacques Ellul statements have with The Visit is that in the visit most of the people had little to no responsibility of Alfred’s death. The town as a whole became unified in which each person didn’t have much remorse about deceiving Alfred that they were on his side. Since the whole town was doing it the responsibility didn’t fall on a certain person. In this situation Claire is technology that Jacques explains because she was controlling everybody all the departments like the police, the doctor, the priest, she just told them what to do and they worked towards it. The money that they were going to receive gave them a small responsibility to deceive Alfred to his death and they would be happy. Claire’s money was the reason her power was so immense since she could control a whole town.