Scientific advancements not only improve our quality of living but divulge a myriad of previously unknown aspects of our world and more importantly ourselves. Despite its seemingly endless list of benefits and marvels, technology, like anything else, has a seedy underbelly of undesirable consequences as displayed in The Martian Chronicles. From early in the novel, the rockets used by the astronauts are described in terms of their fearsome ability to change their surroundings. In the anecdote titled ¨The Locusts¨, “The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmitted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about”(78). Merely
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Near the culmination of Bradbury’s interplanetary saga, his narrator states,”Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness…(180). The direct cause of the ruination of Earth and nearly the extinction of the human race was the technology they so cherished. The technology that brought the human race to Mars has been shown to be a force to be reckoned with. They have been shown to be able to destroy acres of land and even change the weather, but the rockets were only the transport for the even greater force of destruction and imperialism. The men, specifically American, that landed on Mars didn't bring guns or steel but they definitely brought germs. After three different expeditions to Mars, the Martians contracted Chicken Pox from one of the previous visitors essentially destroying the people of Mars save for a select few. Even without the species eradicating epidemic, Bradbury believed that the introduction of humans to the planet of Mars would have adverse
Near the culmination of Bradbury’s interplanetary saga, his narrator states,”Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness…(180). The direct cause of the ruination of Earth and nearly the extinction of the human race was the technology they so cherished. The technology that brought the human race to Mars has been shown to be a force to be reckoned with. They have been shown to be able to destroy acres of land and even change the weather, but the rockets were only the transport for the even greater force of destruction and imperialism. The men, specifically American, that landed on Mars didn't bring guns or steel but they definitely brought germs. After three different expeditions to Mars, the Martians contracted Chicken Pox from one of the previous visitors essentially destroying the people of Mars save for a select few. Even without the species eradicating epidemic, Bradbury believed that the introduction of humans to the planet of Mars would have adverse