Why Did Bradbury Use the Title ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’?
The book ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a Dystopia about how humans will all die out leaving no trace and effect on nature and the world around us. There Will Come Soft Rains” concerns the technological revolution, as well as the atomic warfare, and its effect on our society, how it isolates us from one another. It is about the last day in the "life" of a wonderful electronic home - after an atomic war. It is the only house left standing on its desolate, ruined street and is still running to capacity even though its inhabitants remain only as shadows embedded on its walls. The title is the same as of a poem written previous to the story being published. The title is not only interlinked to the story and the message in it but also to the historic background of this short story.
The title is ambiguous as there is no definite answer to what the soft rains are. Immediately Bradbury creates some curiosity in the reader as they are yet to be given an idea of what will be coming. Bradbury reflects his main plot around humans all dying out and the world and nature not even noticing. The history behind this could be the events of the atomic bomb. After the atomic bomb in 1945, pessimism would have hung in the air and Bradbury wrote about how humans would all kill themselves. In the text, many indirect but subtle references are made to the atomic bomb.
The title has the word ‘will’, which makes it seem definite that the soft rains will come. This adds effect, as the loss of humans is more evident and bigger as the reader thinks that this will happen. Also, the words ‘soft rains’ carries connotations with floods and water. Bradbury could be making the link between how when floods occur humans may die but the nature and trees are still visible, standing or fallen. Also, now the only rain that comes is the ‘gentle sprinkle rains’. This shows how natural rain has been long replaced by technological and artificial rain.
Bradbury uses personification to great effect in the
The title is ambiguous as there is no definite answer to what the soft rains are. Immediately Bradbury creates some curiosity in the reader as they are yet to be given an idea of what will be coming. Bradbury reflects his main plot around humans all dying out and the world and nature not even noticing. The history behind this could be the events of the atomic bomb. After the atomic bomb in 1945, pessimism would have hung in the air and Bradbury wrote about how humans would all kill themselves. In the text, many indirect but subtle references are made to the atomic bomb.
The title has the word ‘will’, which makes it seem definite that the soft rains will come. This adds effect, as the loss of humans is more evident and bigger as the reader thinks that this will happen. Also, the words ‘soft rains’ carries connotations with floods and water. Bradbury could be making the link between how when floods occur humans may die but the nature and trees are still visible, standing or fallen. Also, now the only rain that comes is the ‘gentle sprinkle rains’. This shows how natural rain has been long replaced by technological and artificial rain.
Bradbury uses personification to great effect in the