Themes
There Will Come Soft Rains
By: Ray Bradbury
There are three different themes explored in the Ray Bradbury’s story “There will come soft rains”. The basic and most important theme is that mankind is the beauty of this world. Ray Bradbury refutes the idea of Sara Teasdale who believes that nature can survive and even thrive after the humans are vanished forever. In his story Bradbury showed that nature cannot survive without humans. The dog died after searching for his human friends madly. The nature was bleak outside the house. No bird was singing and no tree was happy after the perishing of mankind. The foxes were lonely and the cats were whining.
The second important theme is the mindlessness of machines. Although machines have taken man’s place in many fields and man is obsessed with technology, yet machines are devoid of human intellect and feelings. The house, despite of its excellent protection system, cannot save itself. The voice in the study was reading poetry and the stove was making breakfast while the house was burning. According to Bradbury machines cannot be a substitute for man as humans are matchless.
Bradbury has depicted the horrors of atomic bomb in his story. Although there is no direct reference to atomic bomb but the silhouettes of the family burned in the wall suggests that the city was destroyed by nuclear bombing. The story was published in 1950, just five years after the nuclear explosion on Hiroshima.
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