And Then There Will Come Soft Rains

Gothic Literature has dark, spooky and eerie places as shown in the stories, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and “And Then There will Come Soft Rains,” by Ray Bradbury. The stories both take places in spooky houses. There are many examples of gothic literature in both of the stories. There were many examples such as spooky settings, eeriness, confusing and weird parts that kind of confuse you. In And Then There Were None as well as “And Then There Thou Soft Rain” there was a lot of dark and spookiness in both of the settings in the stories. In And Then There Were None, Christie placed the story on a remote island in a spooky house as well as “And Then There will Come Soft Rains” Bradbury placed the story in an abandoned house with nobody living in it just robots still functioning like there are people still there. The real spookiness was not the settings though. The real spookiness was the outside of the houses with all the rain and the dark settings. However though Bradbury had had no characters to react to the settings as Christie had characters reacting to where they are and finding places in the house that they didn’t have much information about. …show more content…
In “And Then There will Come Soft Rain” the speaker was used to let the robot that was really the house honestly make announcements over the speaker even though the house was abandoned still it still made the announcements. In And Then There Were None the speaker was also played across the house explaining that the guest had all killed someone and to make them all scared. However both houses had loud speakers both were used for different purposes in Christie's story the loudspeakers were used for a bad purpose but in Bradbury's they were used for a helpful