A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
The two novels, The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem, are both haunting, first
person tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society. In this
essay I will point out many important similarities and differences between the
two books, mainly the setting and the similarities between the two societies in
which the stories take place, as well as more important differences between the
main characters.
To start I would like to compare the settings of the two books. In
Anthem the story takes place sometime in the future after some catastrophic
event. Apparently society as we know it was destroyed and the leaders that were
left decided that the problem was the individual, that all men are equal in all
things and that anything that is created by one person is evil. This train of
thought is carried to such and extreme that the very word "I" is removed from
their vocabulary. An example of this is found when the main character,......
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