Analysis Of August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains

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The story, August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains, by Ray Bradbury illustrates a future in which houses are robotic, and almost all chores we do today are automatic. Breakfast is made automatically, maids are replaced with robot-cleaner-mice, and security is top-notch, and built into the house. While these luxuries may exist, humanity is but a distant memory, and the world is rubble due to a nuclear catastrophe. Bradbury uses dystopia, personification, and irony to show that technology will bring the end to humanity. The first way Bradbury gets his message across is by using dystopia in his story. This allows him to depict a future in which technology eventually brings the end of humanity. Bradbury writes “The house stood alone in a city

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