There Will Come Soft Rain Literary Analysis

The concept of human futility is a strong theme within both “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe as well as the Disney movie “Atlantis the Lost Empire”. Within each of these stories the authors, and creators bring a lot of wonderfully crafted themes to the text, but the most persistent ideal in each of these stories is that humans will fail in the end despite whatever efforts they use to attempt to avoid failure. Each story also has a slightly different take on the same concept: one reveals it from a point of view of singular person; while the other two craft the view of the concept from the point of view of a certain society as a whole. Also these stories also use very powerful sense …show more content…
This is revealed in this story when Bradbury writes: “The five spots of paint – the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer” (399). This is the family that lived in the house which can assumed because of where they died. With that detail in mind this implies that in spite of having a nice family house and a well-kept happy family the family all still perished and in the end they could have done nothing to stop it. The average family goal is to have a nice house that the whole family can live comfortably in, and all be happy with each other this family had that yet despite those achieves that are normally the epitome of human achievement this human vanished in a spilt second without any way to do anything to save themselves. This family was also was well off on the front of happiness was well given the fact that they were all outside enjoying each other company so it was not like they were dysfunctional which meant they had a proper, and happy family life that many people strive for and yet even with all of that they got turned to ash without any chance to save their fleeting