Animal Farm vs Anthem
Comparisons
Contrasts
Anthem is set in the future, while Animal Farm is set in the recents past (around 100-200 years ago)
In Anthem the main character is a human and in Animal Farm the main characters are animals
Equality ends up escaping his controllers, while the animals end up staying and being contolled
In Anthem characters were set in better conditions, while in Animal Farm the animals were set in awful conditions
Animal Farm is more on the depressing side and Anthem is more on the happy
Both written in the setting of an imperfect and dismal society
Both express the theme that a society in which everyone is equal cannot exist
Both have main their own main characters: Napoleon and Equality
Equality in Anthem and the animals in Animal Farm both rebel in their books
Both give negative opinions toward the "communism" that is portrayed in the books
Animals and humans are sort of set to do their own jobs
Both books had the characters follow their own set of rules
Major conflict
Main theme
Anthem: Equality struggles for self-identification in a society that has rejected individualism in favor of collectivism
Animal Farm: Animal Farm versus the neighboring humans
Animal Farm
Anthem
Plot
Anthem
Animal Farm
Meets the Golden One and realizes he likes her
Major dies and the animals take over the farm
Animal Farm prospers and the animals are becoming educated
Animals are told about the future where the animals will roam the Earth and not be controlled by humans
Mr Jones returns and tries to take back his farm/ battle of cowshed
Idea of the windmill/ Napoleon has his dogs chase Snowball off of the farm and Napoleon assumes leadership of the farm
Invents electricity
Equality finds a tunnel and then holds experiments
Introduction to story and tells about Equality's childhood
Arrives at the House of Sweepers late, gets beaten and thrown in the Detention Center
adventure
new things are not always bad
the primacy of Equality
individualism
original creation
the leaders ability to mislead others
everyone is equal though some are more privileged
the corruption of the leaders
do not let anyone discourage your ideas or not let you be something you wanna be
do not take a beating without fighting back
Council rejects his idea of the light bulb so he runs into the woods
Construction of the windmill/ humans destroy windmill and pigs act more and more like humans
The golden One follows him out in the woods, they find a house, repair it and find useful things, plan on rescuing their friends from the evil city and the wife is pregnant
Windmill gets destroyed again and the animals fight off some humans/ Boxer got injured and he became weak/ He collapsed one day and the pigs sold him to a glue factory for whisky
Pigs become allies with humans/ pigs change farm name back to Manor Farm/ animals living on the farm cant tell a difference between the pigs or the humans