The emphasis on the silence maintained among the Handmaids uses Foucault's authority, where knowledge and truth generate power. Yet silence allows Offred to get away with “those rights to act as an individual for her own comfort and happiness, which do not infringe on the natural rights of others.” (Paine) The Handmaids take advantage of the darkness to free themselves, "we learned to whisper almost noiselessly... in this way we exchanged names", names are the only way to encapsulate the importance of a character, removing the names of the Handmaids. Atwood offers a Marxist critique of society in which a group of anonymous women led by appointed men, "commanders", will always be inherently unequal. The “night” sections are where Offred manipulates the situation the most; however, the reliability of these reflections calls into question the reliability of the protagonist. “If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending.” Obviously, this raises doubt about the novel's ending, but ultimately it suggests that Offred is manipulating the situation to comfort herself with a more positive version of events. Unlike the private knowledge of Atwood's novel, Fahrenheit 451 uses the private knowledge of the burned books for the benefit of the future. By Granger's "traveling literature" group being the only characters left alive at the end of Fahrenheit 451, "and the