Since the people in the house relied on technology for every aspect of their life, they were “worshipping” the technology and ultimately met their demise. According to the Bible, anyone who worships a false god will be condemned to an eternity in Hell. Therefore, he represents any other technology in the house. In this situation, Baal is a symbol for human’s creations and their stupidity. The incinerator in the cellar is compared to Baal, a false god created by humans. As the story progresses, the narrator describes the incinerator in the cellar.īradbury compares the “sighing of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in dark corner” (Bradbury 2). Bradbury is telling the readers that what humans create to “protect” themselves will ultimately bring their downfall. The nuclear bomb was originally developed to protect the people of the United States. From the excerpt, it can be determined that a nuclear explosion has occurred and the entire city has been reduced to “rubble and ash”. He describes the house standing “alone in a city of rubble and ash… one house left standing” (Bradbury 1). While the house is going through its daily routine, the narrator stops to describe the setting. Ray Bradbury suggests that when humans try to change nature, they will meet similar outcomes just like when they try to change their fate. Machines and robots are not human and therefore cannot posses human qualities. Picasso and Matisse have produced some of the most valued masterpieces that have ever been created and the fire just burns them away.
The narrator describes the fire as “…crackl up the stairs” and “…feeding on Picasso’s and Matisse’s” (Bradbury 3). As the story draws to a close, a fire breaks loose in the house and burns everything in its path. People are able to cook their own toast to the way they want it. But unfortunately, it lacks the ability to cook the toast to perfection it is programmed to make it hard as a rock. The stove makes the majority of the food in the house for the family.
She discusses a “stove that cooks by itself, a miracle we all might want, unfortunately creates ‘toast that was like stone’” (Hicks 236).
In the story, everything is computerized, including the kitchen appliances. In an essay by Jennifer Hicks, the author discusses the different images in “There Will Come Soft Rains” and their negative connections. They are simply “angry” at having to pick up the mess, and shortly after, the dogs corpse.
However since the mice are robotic, they are incapable of feeling these emotions. Say a human were in the house, they would find treatment for the dog or at least feel sympathy for the dog’s situation. Instead of feeling sympathy and compassion for the dog, the robotic mice are “annoyed” at the mess he’s made.
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