Comparison Between 'My Country And The Pedestrian'

“My Country” and “The Pedestrian” both discuss factors which are considered to contribute to the loss of humanity through their lexical choices. Part of being human in society is the ability to be humane and capability to progress with society. Millbank explores this issue in the story “My Country” by expressing the idea of humanity regression. In the story, Millbank describes intoxicated men as a “pack” exhibiting abhorrent behaviours as they “wolf whistle” and taunt the women in “loud jeering voice”. The female narrator degraded them as animalistic men deprived of humanity as they “harassed” the “lower species” with “no mechanism for defence”. Contrarily, “The Pedestrian” depicts society advancement which exceeds the way of humanity, therefore causing people to lose touch with humane aspects. Bradbury sets the story in a futuristic world where “grey phantoms” seem to
In “My Country”, Millbank express the matter of power of “group over a person” and “man over women”. The narrator depicts the drunken men on the train tormenting those “who won’t or can’t fight back”. She further describe the female victims as “powerless and ridiculed” as one would to describe a cornered prey. Contrastingly, “The Pedestrian” portrays domination of technology over humanity and authority over citizens. Bradbury describes the people in the futuristic world to be lifeless as they “sat like the dead”, in a trance by the light from the screens “touching them”. Furthermore in the story, the protagonist is apprehended by a police car “wandering the empty streets” and the light held him fixed”, although he is innocent he felt the need to oblige as the opposite is an authority figure. The texts’ perspectives of the issue of abuse of power have let audience comprehend the idea that it is impeccable inhumane