A Comparison of The Handmaids Tale and Anthem :: comparison compare contrast essays

A Comparison of The Handmaids description and Anthem         The two novels, The Handmaids report and Anthem, be both haunting, first someone tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society.  In this seek I will point out similarities and differences amongst the two books.  in that location are similarities in the setting of each work, and the between the two societies in which the stories take place, as well as more important differences between the important characters.         To start I would like to compare the settings of the two books.  In Anthem the story takes place sometime in the future aft(prenominal)wards some catastrophic event.  Apparently society as we know it was destroy 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 hang back of thought is c arried to such and extreme that the very word I is remote from their vocabulary.  An example of this is found when the main character, Equality-1329, re-invents the electric light.  He shows his aim to the scientist and although this invention could improve the quality of life of the people it is deemed evil because he worked on his project alone.  The society in this book is also strict and haughty to the point of dictating what your job will be, to whom you will contribute children with.         In The Handmaids 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 atomic bomb in Washington during a full session of intercourse and then declare marshal law.  They then systematically took all rights away(p) from women and forced the ones that could have children into camps whe re they would be contracted out to powerful rank officials to have their children.  These women are referred too as handmaids.         Next, I would like to reason the main characters, in The Handmaids Tale and in Anthem.  In both books the main characters are basically nameless people, in The Handmaids Tale we never image the name of the main character,