Essay on the setting of "there will come soft rains"
Essay on the setting of “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury
In “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, a short story by world renown author Ray Bradbury, the narrator tells the story of a house in Allendale California, in the year 2026. The setting in this short story is very particular; it is set in a post-apocalyptic world that most likely illustrates the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war. The story takes place over the course of one day: “August 4, 2026”. The house that is described to the reader is the last house left standing, it’s deserted and surrounded by rubbles but it’s still technologically intact. The setting in this story takes a major role, it provides insight into the story, it facilitates the readers understanding of the story and in this case it is the center of the story, the “main character”. Bradbury mainly describes three elements of the setting, a post-apocalyptic world, a city of ashes and rubble and a house that is personified but yet inhuman.
Ray Bradbury has always been a polemic writer who has brought to his readers an interesting perspective on very important subjects that affected the society in which he lived in. In this particular short story, the reader is presented with a post-apocalyptic world, more precisely the post-apocalyptic city of Allendale, California. It is highly possible to assume that the city was destroyed by an atomic blast. The story was written in 1950, during the years of the atomic bomb, Bradbury was contemporary with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and therefore he lived in an era that was dominated by the everlasting fear of an imminent nuclear war, which clearly had an effect in his writing. The poem by Sara Teasdale, just like Bradbury’s short story, seems to illustrated a world where “not one will know of the war […] [where] mankind perished utterly”, a world depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war.
The short description of the remains of the city that
In “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, a short story by world renown author Ray Bradbury, the narrator tells the story of a house in Allendale California, in the year 2026. The setting in this short story is very particular; it is set in a post-apocalyptic world that most likely illustrates the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war. The story takes place over the course of one day: “August 4, 2026”. The house that is described to the reader is the last house left standing, it’s deserted and surrounded by rubbles but it’s still technologically intact. The setting in this story takes a major role, it provides insight into the story, it facilitates the readers understanding of the story and in this case it is the center of the story, the “main character”. Bradbury mainly describes three elements of the setting, a post-apocalyptic world, a city of ashes and rubble and a house that is personified but yet inhuman.
Ray Bradbury has always been a polemic writer who has brought to his readers an interesting perspective on very important subjects that affected the society in which he lived in. In this particular short story, the reader is presented with a post-apocalyptic world, more precisely the post-apocalyptic city of Allendale, California. It is highly possible to assume that the city was destroyed by an atomic blast. The story was written in 1950, during the years of the atomic bomb, Bradbury was contemporary with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and therefore he lived in an era that was dominated by the everlasting fear of an imminent nuclear war, which clearly had an effect in his writing. The poem by Sara Teasdale, just like Bradbury’s short story, seems to illustrated a world where “not one will know of the war […] [where] mankind perished utterly”, a world depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war.
The short description of the remains of the city that