In the Anthem, everything started after a catastrophic event. Their society was destroyed by the leaders, which thought that the problem was the individual. This belief was so severe that the word "I" had to be deleted from their vocabulary. In The Handmaid 's Tale, there was a catastrophe which made men sterile. In order to solve this catastrophe, all women 's rights were taken away and were forced to bear Commander 's children. Another difference is their naming system. Even though in both novels their identity were stripped away, in the Handmaid 's Tale, women adapted their Commander 's name preceding them with "Of". Meanwhile on the Anthem, individuals have no identity of their own. They are name Equality followed by a number such as 7-2521. Anything that might allow individuals to develop their own identity- whether name, a mirror, or the first-person singular was
In the Anthem, everything started after a catastrophic event. Their society was destroyed by the leaders, which thought that the problem was the individual. This belief was so severe that the word "I" had to be deleted from their vocabulary. In The Handmaid 's Tale, there was a catastrophe which made men sterile. In order to solve this catastrophe, all women 's rights were taken away and were forced to bear Commander 's children. Another difference is their naming system. Even though in both novels their identity were stripped away, in the Handmaid 's Tale, women adapted their Commander 's name preceding them with "Of". Meanwhile on the Anthem, individuals have no identity of their own. They are name Equality followed by a number such as 7-2521. Anything that might allow individuals to develop their own identity- whether name, a mirror, or the first-person singular was