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Essay Archive - A Comparison of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Anthem"
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....
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