There Will Come Soft Rains Dystopian Essay
Dystopian Stories: Creative Worlds
“Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could realize that no utopia is possible” (Jack Carroll) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury are all dystopian stories. In The Hunger Games each year two children are picked from one of the twelve districts to fight to the death in The Hunger Games, to show that they can not rebel against the capital. They are forced to do this to show that they can not rebel against their leader. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys stranded on a desert island, throughout their experience they learn that they are naive and barbaric. There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story about a world …show more content…
Many authors use their background or past events as their historical context. There Will Come Soft Rains relates back to World War II which had just ended when this story was written in 1950. In the story the author talks about how the world was destroyed in a radioactive explosion. “And the one day the world shook and there was an explosion followed by ten thousand explosions and red fire in the sky and a rain of ashes and radioactivity, and all the happy time was over.” (page 26, Ray Bradbury) The explosion refers to the nuclear bombs in the war, people thought that was how he world was going to end. The Bradbury used this to show people's fears about the future, and how they thought the world would crumble apart.
William Golding uses his childhood and career as historical context for Lord of the Flies. He was a teacher at an all boys school, which showed him how savage young boys can behave. He could see they needed structure and order to operate. “Ralph was vexed to find how little he thought like a grownup and sighed again. The island was getting worse and worse.” (page 128, William Golding) Children can not be adults until they grow up. Golding fought in World War II, it opened his eyes to how willing humans were to turn against each other. He learned people will kill one another without thinking
“Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could realize that no utopia is possible” (Jack Carroll) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury are all dystopian stories. In The Hunger Games each year two children are picked from one of the twelve districts to fight to the death in The Hunger Games, to show that they can not rebel against the capital. They are forced to do this to show that they can not rebel against their leader. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys stranded on a desert island, throughout their experience they learn that they are naive and barbaric. There Will Come Soft Rains is a short story about a world …show more content…
Many authors use their background or past events as their historical context. There Will Come Soft Rains relates back to World War II which had just ended when this story was written in 1950. In the story the author talks about how the world was destroyed in a radioactive explosion. “And the one day the world shook and there was an explosion followed by ten thousand explosions and red fire in the sky and a rain of ashes and radioactivity, and all the happy time was over.” (page 26, Ray Bradbury) The explosion refers to the nuclear bombs in the war, people thought that was how he world was going to end. The Bradbury used this to show people's fears about the future, and how they thought the world would crumble apart.
William Golding uses his childhood and career as historical context for Lord of the Flies. He was a teacher at an all boys school, which showed him how savage young boys can behave. He could see they needed structure and order to operate. “Ralph was vexed to find how little he thought like a grownup and sighed again. The island was getting worse and worse.” (page 128, William Golding) Children can not be adults until they grow up. Golding fought in World War II, it opened his eyes to how willing humans were to turn against each other. He learned people will kill one another without thinking