Humanity Exposed In Ray Bradbury's Soft Rains

Within the novels Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and 1984 the authors depict what they imagine the future will be like. Society today is corrupted by advanced technology, plagued by censorship, and intimate communication has been shattered. Although each novel has something comparable to today’s society, Bradbury’s depiction of society in Fahrenheit 451 is very comparable to America today.

In Ray Bradbury’s “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, The McClellan family home seems equipped with every imaginable technological innovation, but it fails to provide more human qualities like love (Devers). This excerpt is an example of how the author expresses personification in this short story. The house has each and every technical tool that it needs to function, yet, it does not have the love of its owners any longer. Along with personification, Bradbury uses the rhetorical mode of pathos to demonstrate how the house continues to carry out its daily functions even though the surrounding society has suffered. An example of how Bradbury attempts to capture the reader's emotional psyche is, “In the nursery the jungle burned. Blue lions roared, purple giraffes bounded off….Ten more voices died…”. This allows readers to feel sorry for the perishing animals that are dying in the burning house. As Bradbury uses personification and pathos to engage readers into the short story, readers can emotionally relate and visualize a house that continues to function without a society.

While that is something the community may not have been able to accomplish in the past, making it a very considerable accomplishment, being able to encounter everything might not always bring a positive outcome. Bradbury thought it would bring an atrocious ending to what is considered as humanity today. Many find it true that what Bradbury stated in his writing is legitimate. In The Veldt, Bradbury portrayed too much pride in that the Hadley’s had more pride in their deluxe house than their relationship as a family.“And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one. Oh, occasionally they frightened you with their clinical accuracy, they startled you, gave you a twinge, but most of the time what fun for everyone,not only your own son and daughter, but for yourself when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land, a quick change of scenery. Well, here it was!” In There Will Come Soft Rains, Bradbury states throughout his story that humans have too much pride in the things that have been created, such as sumptuous houses, slightly more than they have pride in ourselves for creating it. “In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get

In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury presents a society that limits individuality and curiosity. He shows a very robotic and concrete city in which people do not have the freedom to express their diverse opinions. The government encloses them in this very structural system; however, nature remains the one thing the government cannot control. Nature has the potential to affect how people in this society see and think about things differently and to open them up to new ideas. Guy Montag, a fireman, lives in this fast-paced city full of technology while others like Granger, an old author, live in the quiet countryside full of forests and rivers. Bradbury uses the motif of nature to reveal in life, leisure, a time to think, becomes necessary to evaluate and resolve life’s complications.

Over the years technology has slowly become an important part in people’s everyday lives. We live in a world where technology is constantly updating as society becomes more dependent upon it. Everything around us is made using technology or discovered through technology. With each day that goes by society gets closer to solely relying on technology to function. In many aspects technology is a very useful tool.

In the calamitous story, “There Will Come Soft Rains,” a house that is ran by a computer tends to all of a family’s needs. Nevertheless, the house is confused when it carries out all of the expected daily duties, and nobody gives a response. The people of the house are massacred by war, just like the people in the poem by Sara Teasdale, and neither the house in the story nor the creatures in the poem notice that humankind has ceased to exist. Conversely, the house in the story continues to take care of the family even after their death, unlike the characters in the poem who continue to live life like the humans had never existed. Comparatively, the family’s dog notices the family’s death because it relies on the humans to live, unlike the creatures in the poem.

The meaning of Human Nature is not something that everyone agrees with. Meaning human nature is whatever one can imagine it to be; an opinion. “ Human Nature is never revealed so clearly as when he tries to describe the nature of another person.”(Jean-Paul). In these short stories, “There Will Come Soft Rain” by Ray Bradbury (1950) and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell (1924), the conflicts is to teach the reader about human’s nature. The conflict the authors puts in these stories is to express that human nature is aggressive, in being aggressive humans feel that they can gain power. For example, cavemen used aggression to gain more food and territory, when they could just have put away selfish thoughts and work together. When nature or environment changed and the cavemen, with a lot of power, did not know what to do it would probably perish. Humans destroy each

This futuristic story has no characters but centers around a single house left standing after a nuclear blast has destroyed the remainder of Allendale, California in the year 2026. In "There Will Come Soft Rains" Ray Bradbury portrays symbolism, personification, and irony throughout the house, the mice, and the poem. All of these objects reflect on mankind use of technology. We are navigating away from human interaction and our daily routines are becoming repetitious, unexciting, technology-driven activities. Every day we check off things on our "to do" lists and make more of a lengthier list. Our routines are almost robot like. The robots in the story seem to be racing around like our minds at times. “The house was an altar with ten thousand

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This house is fully equipped with 21st century technology. Even though there are no people the house works on a specific schedule 24 hours 7 days a week. The story begins normally, alarm clock goes off and right away that’s a sign of people. What was not expected was that there is no humans beings what so ever, it was just one little house by it self, around is just rubble and debree. Since this story is written as if it was in the future, everything is automated. The house is a machine that did everything from cleaning to preparing food. Although people are not present (because of the nuclear holocaust), the house still functions. The climax of the story is when a weak tree bough crashed through the kitchen window, knocking over cleaning solvent over the stove. Instantaneously the kitchen catches fire. The house tried its best to defend itself but as we all know nature is unstoppable. This story is phenomenon; it’s very intense and has you on the edge of your seat the whole time. This story is made for the reader to visualize the actual story, as if you were actually there. All that is left is the lonely house and the wounded dog. What happens in the end really is unexpected and even sad. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain”, He uses various literary devices to warn us about the dangers of technology . Bradbury uses symbols to illustrate that humans are to dependent on technology. He uses the themes of the story to

Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois, a town that is “perched on the edge of a gently rising bluff that overlooks the slate-green waters of Lake Michigan”, on August 22, 1920 to parents Leonard and Esther Bradbury (Weller 13). He was the third of four siblings. On of his older brothers, Samuel, died before Bradbury was born and his younger sister, Elizabeth, died when he was seven. Leonard Jr., Samuel’s twin, and Ray were the only two siblings to live past childhood.

This book would fall under low culture because it was intended for mass consumption and that is all Bradbury wanted. The main concern of this book is still relevant today because of the growth of mass media and other forms of electronic communication. There are still protests of news and messages being controlled by the “main stream media” or government agencies. Often there are reports of the negative effects that social media and internet use in general have on attention span and learning. It should be remembered today as a warning that we should not allow technology to consume us in a way that we forget who we are and become slaves to it.

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