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A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem" - Term Papers

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 ...

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and authoritarian
to the point of dictating what your job will be, to whom you will have
children with.
In The Handmaid's Tale the story takes place sometime in the near
future after some kind environmental catastrophe that makes it impossible
for most women to have children. To solve this problem some radicals set
off a nuclear bomb in Washington during a full session of congress and then
declare marshal law. They then systematically took all rights away from
women and forced the ones that could have children into camps where they
would be contracted out to powerful ranking officials to have their
children. These women are referred too as "handmaids."
Next, I would like to discuss the main characters, in The
Handmaid's Tale and in Anthem. In both books the main characters are
basically nameless people, in The Handmaid's Tale we never learn the name
of the main character, because she always refers to herself as "I" and the
other characters in the book refer to her with a ...

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