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Comparing Power In When Come Soft Rains And Downwinder

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When reading "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, "When Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury, and "Downwinders" by Curtis Oberhansly and Dianne Nelson Oberhansly. One is aware of self-preservation. When one looks at change in power, he analyzes role of security, human desires and goals, and disastrous outcomes. Being in a place of power moderately changes you not really in an awful way, but rather there is a clear move by the way you see things when you are in a higher position. To begin with, Power definitely improves individuals for better or worse. Feeling powerful, have a tendency to enable people to see things in a greater picture and get things done at a more elevated amount. In the play "Trifles" one sees a battle between man and woman, Mr. Wright and Mrs. Wright. Mr. John Wright rules the household and Mrs. Wright becomes an introvert displaying their role of security. Then in "Downwinders" the government who is the authority that sets rules for a general public, and keeps it running easily, safely, and gently holds the …show more content…

In the story "Downwinders" unfortunately disastrous outcomes occurred such as exposure to radiation that led people to be diagnosed with cancer and other serious diseases due to the fact of government nuclear testing. And in "Trifles" of course it’s tragic that Mr. Wright has been killed yet even more catastrophic Mrs. Wright is going to get away with executing her significant other. Mrs. Wright wasn't in the best happy ever after relationship but that doesn't make it okay to kill your better half. Then in "There will come soft rains" despite the fact that humankind and the robotized house can work for quite a while, the house in the long run disintegrates into rubble and cannot work anymore. The house can apparently do anything, however it can't save itself. Power can always

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