There Will Come Soft Rains

Ethos, pathos, and logos are all critical elements in the rhetorical triangle of good argument. Authors work hard to carefully craft their writings; their goal is to capture and involve their readers’ attention through bias and feeling. All effective arguments appeal to author credibility (ethos), audience emotion (pathos), and strong evidence (logos).

Ray Bradbury’s short story, There Will Come Soft Rains, centers around a self-automated house within a technologically advanced and possibly post apocalyptic time period. Similar to many other works of Bradbury, the story begins with little to no context and can only be described as vague. However, Bradbury employs diction, metaphors, and imagery throughout to allow readers to grasp the setting and overarching atmosphere of the story.

Ray Bradbury has written several futuristic stories which portray the advancement of society. “There Will Come Soft Rains” contains technology in the house that we only dream about. Our current homes, compared to the house in Bradbury’s story, seem bland and helpless in comparison.

Everyday the world is growing older, and the human population is growing smarter. For instance, the short story There Will Come Soft Rains hints at the fact that a radioactive bomb caused an end to human civilization in a certain house. Although it may seem that this is something that could never happen in any near generation, were still left with the question of when will humans take it to far. In There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury uses irony, personification, and symbolism to glamorize the fact that without humans populating the earth the world is a much more calm and peaceful place.

2063.NeverHome has never experienced this kind of a tragedy,all green has been destroyed and replaced with metal.The government and the politics have completely lost their minds.¨War is the best solution to peace” they said but look now after World War 3 it all changed .Years by years pass,full of torture and death and now we are here.At Least i still have my loved one but she doesn’t really love or support my thinking.I think that we need to take our government out so we can all rise up again and make NeverHome feel like home again.Everybody in NeverHome are scared to rise and speak up but that does not include me in it,because i will lead everyone to the great Riot that will

“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story written by Ray Bradbury. The story opens in a living room of a well technologically advance house, where a clock which is voice activated yells out the time, making sure everyone gets up, and also makes breakfast, cleans, and does just about all the household things you are to do. After we read about all the things the house does, we start to notice that the house is empty, which then leads us to learn about the silhouettes on the walls of the house, which we can infer, based on our knowledge of bombs that this is from some type of nuclear bomb. As we read on we learn that the house is the only house left standing in a pile of ruins. After a while the voice in the house starts to play one of Mrs. McClellan favorite poems, which is ironic given the type of situation that the house is unaware that has taken place, the poems talks about nature and how it will still move on and not care that mankind has wiped itself out completely. After the poem, the mood of the story changes the house catches on fire and even with all of its technology it still can’t stop the fire and burns down, the only thing that remains is a wall, which holds the clock that just keeps repeating the date August 5, 2026. From reading the story I think the author plays with the idea that nature is the only thing that can go along its track without any human interactions.

In the pieces Brave New World and “There Will Come Soft Rains” a cloud of unacknowledgement dreads over the worlds. Whether it’s the ignorance of the machines still working for their masters, (who are currently burned into the outer walls of the house from nuclear hellfire) or the Soma addicted civilians of London. They both tell of a world completely corrupted. Brave New World tells the story of a corrupted government brainwashing its people-- a mental corruption. While “There Will Come Soft Rains” tells of a psychical corruption with the remnants of a nuclear holocaust.

Over time many texts have been created which depict future societies and the governmental systems that may exist. Generally due to the nature of the sci-fi genre, these texts portray a utopian or dystopian world. These texts provide what we may see as extreme portrayals of certain issues or events and what role humans play in the future

How do we envision the future and, what does that say and us? The future tends to be seen as either a utopian or a dystopian society. The texts I choose depict a dystopian future the texts in question are: George Orwell’s 1984, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451(1966 film) directed by François Truffaut and V for Vendetta the 2005 film written by the Wachowskis and directed by James McTeigue. These four texts are set in the future or were when published, 1984 is set in 1984, Brave New World in AF 632 (2540), V for Vendetta is set in circa 2028 and finally Fahrenheit 451 is set in a year that’s not named. All of these texts but Fahrenheit 451 is also set in London.

In my own personal opinion, in 25 years, the worldwide demographic will result in one of two scenarios; scenario one being roughly along the lines of Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. In which after a nanotechnology wiped out all traces of oil, the human race had to adapt, and was thus pushed forward into the future, but also become enthralled in the physical appearance. Where as, everyone would undergo a surgery on their 16th birthday to go from being what society considers "ugly" and transformed into being "pretty." Scenario two being similar to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which shows us the aspect of another society that leaps forward greatly in technology, however we fall away from the written word and the government becomes all powerful.

The year is 2026 there is not a soul to be seen. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.” The clock is always ticking but is never heard. It is a dreary day filled with a steady drizzle of rain. All the humans are gone ,but life still goes on. The rain is slowly destroying the house. The only occupant is the lonesome dog. Since the house is not tended to it is slowly fading. Machine is still prospering ,even though man has fallen to itself.

Humanity has experienced a series of changes over time due to the many advancements made to improve a person’s life. Mankind has created a pattern of becoming attached to the benefits which derive from new developments. Therefore, humanity has become predictable, and Neil Postman has analyzed two different predictions for the downfall of humanity. Aldous Huxley more accurately predicts the current behavior of mankind in, Brave New World, than George Orwell did in 1984.

Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece which shows a possible, dismal future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book, Brave New World, the World Controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate family and have the population physically engineered to fit specific specifications according to the needs of society. They also use different methods of brainwashing in order to ensure the population properly conforms to their outline of civilization. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything the people think, like, and dislike is

It isn’t here yet, subject to trillions of possibilities. Although Adam Smith may be right. Taking note from science fiction, perhaps the worst may be true. There used to be a debate between Aldous Huxley’s and George Orwell’s prophecies with our society succumbing to pleasure-seeking world, or a censored one. Considering the endless clickbait articles, the constant updates we must supply to social media, and the amount of stimulation we have available through digital and technological means, Huxley is the winner here. I do have anxiety about the future--where we’re going, or what we’re even doing with our society, and planet. Yet, that’s the best part. We don’t know which way the world will shift. We have plans for one-hundred years in the future, but we can’t predict where we’ll be then. If it weren’t for the spontaneity, then life would become a boring, predictable chore. The uncertainty is absolutely terrifying, yet reassuring. Even when the world seems to be a horrible place, it can change at any moment. Because of this, I can find ways to make the future anything I want. Since the future hasn’t done anything, then I shall work for

Over time our lives seem to have become more and more integrated with our technology. Some may say that this is a very bad thing because this change may result in the loss of jobs for millions of people. Jobs such as, cashiers, bankers, legal assistants, and maybe even taxi drivers. The future may appear bleak at first, but the truth of the matter is that robots taking over our simple and automatable jobs just mean that our jobs can evolve with the technology. A very similar thing happened during the industrial revolution when technologies were developed that massively increased the efficiency and yield of farming. This in turn led to a vast increase of food in the country which led to a lesser need for everyone to be a farmer. With a massive amount of food, former farm workers, and advanced technology, a business of mass production and manufacturing began. The loss of jobs due to technology led to a