A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"

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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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