Compare And Contrast There Will Come Soft Rain And By The Waters Of Babylon

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Stephen Vincent Benet’s “By the Waters of Babylon” is a story where a boy named John takes all of us on the adventure to make new discoveries and finds his way to gain wisdom and become a man. Ray Bradburry’s story, “There Will Come Soft Rain” gives ideas about the life on a futuristic smart house after an apocalyptic massacre to end all life on Earth. Bothe of these stories are both very alike and different, but they both tell us that without intelligent decisions made by mankind, the future for the earth will not be safe nor a habitable place for humans to exist together anymore.
Mankind’s role in the future of the earth will be thrown back to their primitive state or become nonexistent all in one. In There Will Come Soft Rain, man is nonexistent …show more content…

The house in this story is a smart home that helps with daily activities but without mankind it does not know what to do or act. The house tried to keep everything clean for the arrival of the humans again and the house would get scared at the littlest things without the protection of men. “It quivered at each sound, the house did. If a sparrow brushed a window the shade snapped up. The bird, startled, flew off! No, not even a bird must touch this house” (P. 472). In the quote the house didn’t like that there was something tampering with the house that wasn’t supposed to be there, so the house made the bird leave to keep it in the right condition for the humans like it was told to. In By the Waters of Babylon, mankind exists but they are thrown back a lot of stages. Man have moved back and they are told what to do and what not to do by their appointed leader who was a priest. John, the son and heir of the priest is taught the ways of ruling and how exactly to rule an entire colony. From …show more content…

This is that mankind will eventually try and ruin the world. In There Will Come Soft Rain the entire Earth has gone through a world war three and it has all been evaporated by nuclear explosions. Where all that is left are buildings and small traces of human life. “Here, the silhouette in paint of a man mowing the lawn” (P. 472). This small trace was left when a man was outside doing yardwork and then the bomb was dropped and the only thing left to show his existence is the figure on the house that was behind him when the bomb went off. The same dark idea applies to By the Water of Babylon because when John crosses the river he realizes that the land of the gods isn’t very god like, he sees that it is all in rubble and ashes. “When gods war with gods they use weapons we do not know” (P. 466). Johns thought was that the gods of the land got into a war and fought to the death and destroyed the city with them, but the town that he thought was the gods was a popular city before his time called New York that was bombed by mankind in acts of

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