Future Warning
Should we be worried or at least cautious about the near or distant future being too reliant on technology? In the two short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the authors share many similar ideas. Both stories are placed in the future, and they both characterize different characters in the story to show the ignorance of society. The author’s also have very different ways of getting their points across through the use of personification, different settings, and symbolism. Both authors share the main theme of warning people that the future could be dangerous if people do not step up and work hard to change how things in the world are going. The authors of “Harrison …show more content…
In “There Will Come Soft Rains” the author uses personification in the story to describe the battle between technology and nature. In the end nature wins. Page 3 Bradbury states, “The fire burst into the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirts of spark and smoke.” The house represents technology and the human race, and it is destroyed by the fire which represents nature. In the story “Harrison Bergeron” the author uses characterization more often than Bradbury. He shows the war between society and the government through George and Hazel, Harrison, and the government. George and Hazel represent the ignorance of society. Harrison represents the intelligence that want to make a change, but the ignorant ones and the government stand in his way. The government represents the control that they will have if there is more ignorant and laziness than people that are intelligent and want to make a change in the world without being controlled. Ray Bradbury uses personification many times throughout the story. Vonnegut uses more characterization with George and Hazel to show how society is becoming more and more ignorant over time. They get their points across using different literary devices, but in the end they both have the same idea of people becoming too reliant on other
Should we be worried or at least cautious about the near or distant future being too reliant on technology? In the two short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the authors share many similar ideas. Both stories are placed in the future, and they both characterize different characters in the story to show the ignorance of society. The author’s also have very different ways of getting their points across through the use of personification, different settings, and symbolism. Both authors share the main theme of warning people that the future could be dangerous if people do not step up and work hard to change how things in the world are going. The authors of “Harrison …show more content…
In “There Will Come Soft Rains” the author uses personification in the story to describe the battle between technology and nature. In the end nature wins. Page 3 Bradbury states, “The fire burst into the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirts of spark and smoke.” The house represents technology and the human race, and it is destroyed by the fire which represents nature. In the story “Harrison Bergeron” the author uses characterization more often than Bradbury. He shows the war between society and the government through George and Hazel, Harrison, and the government. George and Hazel represent the ignorance of society. Harrison represents the intelligence that want to make a change, but the ignorant ones and the government stand in his way. The government represents the control that they will have if there is more ignorant and laziness than people that are intelligent and want to make a change in the world without being controlled. Ray Bradbury uses personification many times throughout the story. Vonnegut uses more characterization with George and Hazel to show how society is becoming more and more ignorant over time. They get their points across using different literary devices, but in the end they both have the same idea of people becoming too reliant on other