Blog Post 2: What are the apocalyptic fiction stories trying to tell us about our own futures?
Connecting the real world to Bradbury's short story adaptation of the poem There Will Come Soft Rains and E.M. Forster's story The Machine Stops, I noticed that many of the stories we read were apocalyptic fiction, and seemed to be dealing with issues that our society and world are dealing with now, but these stories were published way before these issues were even present. I started wondering, why? What do these stories know about our own futures that we don't realize? While Bradbury's story was in fact published in the 1950's, the Cold War was going on in the background of American lives and was prominent for the ever-looming nuclear apocalypse. I don't think Bradbury expected that now, in the 21st century, we would be dealing with a larger threat than just a Cold War level nuclear arsenal, but thousands upon thousands of nuclear weapons around the world. It does seem that Bradbury's story was ahead of its time, shown by the fact that even the house was ...