In Stephen Vincent Benet’s post-apocalyptic short story, “By the Waters of Babylon (1937),” Benet asserts that using too much knowledge impetuously leads to a price. Benet supports this with descriptions through the narrator, John’s point of view of the gods’ use of knowledge/wisdom and how that led to their demise. Benet’s purpose is to emphasise the message or theme of this story in order to raise the awareness of the audience into considering different perspective of what could happen when we discover too much truth too quickly. Benet’s uses calm choice of word with his most likely young
