What Are The Similarities Between Harrison Bergeron And There Will Come Soft Rains

Compare and Contrast Essay
There Will Come Soft Rains and Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut and Ray
Bradbury,are both very famous stories written in the science fiction/Dystopian genre. Due to both their eerie foreshadowing for the future, both have a feeling of apprehension over the reader. Even though the both stories have different messages, there are important similarities between how they are shown, and how they relate to everything. With the authors using the settings that they did, it played a key role in setting the tone. It was used to radically alter the mood, and to complement the characters. Likewise, the characters of the story were an important part in showing each story's underlying message.
Both Harrison Bergeron and There

Both stories foreshadow what our society might turn out to be. In Harrison Bergeron, the author tells of an very intellectually America in the year 2081, when "everybody was finally equal." This story shows that even if the society is very uniformed, free time comes down to watching tv and having stupid conversation.This can be compared to the terrible emptiness of the suburban neighborhood of the future that is depicted in There Will
Come Soft Rains. Both stories describe disastrous future scenarios for our society which indicate that the author is, in each case, making a point about what we should and should not do as a society. The authors' messages are not just random talk; rather, they are of importance and relevance today. Vonnegut's story, set in a society where equality is absolute and
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individualism is absolutely to a minimal, seems to warn us against overly stressing equality while forgetting to teach the strength of the individual. The scenario depicted in Ray Bradbury's story;
There Will Come Soft Rain is one of destruction. The chilling message, underlined by the irony of robots, is that our society focuses its scientific and intellect on the wrong applications.

The setting is an important component in each story and is used the same in each story. Because both stories tell of scenarios of our future, it was key to show individualism and discouraging settings which would emphasize the author's’ theme. Vonnegut set Harrison
Bergeron in a late America. Everything that he described about the surroundings is boring with nothing every spectacular ever happening, and the television program uninteresting. In fitting with the story's concept, everything about the stories entirely bland. This creates non independent thought and free will, which makes for a setting from an interesting standpoint.
Equally but in a more straightforward fashion, is There Will Come Soft Rains.Nothing happy comes out of this story due to everything being destroyed by nuclear conflict . The automated house, which is operated to pick up on things senses no hope, which is very ironic. Besides the general desolation, one theme shared is the destruction in each story. In Harrison Bergeron the government whose policy is to establish equality represents the opposite views of our present day United States of America. In There Will Come Soft Rains, the chaos is absolute. To
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