Lines 55-59 How carefully it had inquired, “Who goes there? What’s the password?” and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia ” (Bradbury, n.d.), If the house had not been destroyed by a tree branch, the house would likely have maintained its zombie-like ritual until a mechanical failure brought operations to a halt. ‘ (Bradbury, n.d.), The house is portrayed as being so self-absorbed that it develops into a paranoid. Bradbury brings home the emotions typical of humans for example when a dog tracks mud into a clean house, the house was angry lines 67-68 ‘.Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at the inconvenience. The main character in ‘ There Will Come Soft Rain ‘ is the house, due to which humans have become extinct as a result of a nuclear weapon and to bring life back to the place, Bradbury uses personification or the imposition of human traits on inanimate objects. In this scenario, humans have been partially replaced by technology. Small robot mice clean the house while the stove cooks breakfast on its own. Many of the jobs that people used to do have been delegated to robots in the short novel. In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ Bradbury addresses on numerous themes relating to these difficulties. These technological concerns inevitably found their way into literary works of the time, with science fiction writers, in particular, focusing on such topics. Several people were anxious that their employment will be taken over by robots in the future, while others feared that the rate of technological advancement would outpace humanity’s ability to keep up with the ethical issues that frequently accompany scientific advancements. As technology advanced at a breakneck pace, especially after the invention of the nuclear bomb in the 1940s, a dread of robots taking over the world grew. There Will Come Soft Rains,’ a short tale by Ray Bradbury, addresses a frequent issue of the mid-twentieth century.
Set in the year 2026 and following a futuristic smart home in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster that devastated the former human population of the residence, the residence is completely self-contained in this The house, everything is mechanical, from the garage door to the cleaning, as the day’s progress, the house becomes more aware of time and starts its duties at specific times. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ was first released on Ray Bradbury’s hit set in 1950.
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