There Will Come Soft Rain Symbolism

Explore the ways in which the authors use symbolism to vividly convey the theme of social downfall from arrogance in TWO of the short stories. Two stories that vividly convey symbolism for social downfall from arrogance would be “There Will Come Soft Rain”, by Ray Bradbury and “The Phoenix”, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. In the story “There Will Come Soft Rain”, Bradbury conveys the theme of how technology that man have build will either be the death of us or outlive us. That would the social downfall because humans thought they were helping each other and the earth with the advanced technology but at the end it killed them. In “The Phoenix”, Warner uses his main characters as symbols. Like the phoenix, Mr. Poldero, and Mr. Strawberry, they all
The main theme that Warner uses is greed. Greed ties into social downfall from arrogance because in “The Phoenix” the character, Mr. Poldero, who was a symbol for the negative in society. Was so consumed with greed that he did tortured the phoenix. The people didn't want bird that was boring so that led Mr. Poldero to torture the phoenix. In throughout the story we see that he was treating the phoenix bad because it always went back to the money he got. At the end, him being consumed with greed killed him and everyone who wanted to see the phoenix die. “The Phoenix” also used Mr. Strawberry, the first owner of the phoenix as the good in society seeing as he feed the phoenix and took care of it. Mr. Strawberry never got mad with it just because it was calm, and he always kept the phoenix well. The phoenix was the force of nature if you kept treating him in a bad way the phoenix was going to fight back. All three characters had a different symbol in this story and at the end it, and it help with the theme of social downfall from arrogance. We see different sides to society the good and the bad but at the end everyone who went to see the phoenix pyre and Mr. Poldero were the social downfall. It showed me that if you go against nature it will strike back and that’s what Mr. Poldero did. It showed that many things not just arrogance could be the social
For Warner it was about how greed can lead you to do horrible things and in the end you have to pay. For Bradbury it was humans have become so dependent on technology and that it could be a danger. At the end both societies died because of their own interest of going forward or getting money. At the end both authors did show great symbolism in their stories and those symbols did showed that there is many ways of social downfall from arrongane. They both had completely different themes but at the end they also had the same