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There Will Come Soft Rains Theme Essay

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The theme that applies to the stories There Will Come Soft Rains (Teasdale), There Will Come Soft Rains (Bradbury), Nightmare Number Three, and By The Waters of Babylon is that one day, humans will cause their own self-destruction. In By The Waters of Babylon, it is set in the future, and the son of the priest has a vision of the past where the “gods” were having a civil war. On page 7, it says, “When gods war with gods they use weapons we do not know . . . It was the time of the Great Burning and Destruction.” On page 8, it says “They were men -- they went a dark road, but they were men.” The men led to their own destruction with civil tension and technological violence.They destroyed all they knew with the technology and tools that they

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