![]() Observe how Bradbury repeatedly highlights not only the ghostly qualities to the shadowy figures in their homes, but also the ‘tomblike’ aspect of those houses: these people, Bradbury is implying, are already dead, and now merely waiting for their bodies to catch up with their minds. And by ‘life’ here we should include not only survival (as in, for instance, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’, where everyone is wiped out by nuclear war) but living: the quality of life which gives our existence meaning. Indeed, if we had to identify the main theme of Ray Bradbury’s writing, it would be the threat that technological advancements pose to human life. Fear of technology and the ways in which it robs us of what it is that makes us human is a recurring theme of Bradbury’s fiction. The irony is that, for Mead, there are no people to watch, apart from the phantom or ghostly shapes he sees moving inside the houses of the city.Īs in many Ray Bradbury stories, technology has tried to recreate nature at home: the police car which arrests him makes it clear that, if he wants to take the air, he can do so at home by having some air-conditioning system installed. Here are some examples of metaphors in literature: 31.) All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being in seven ages. Mead himself is depicted as something of a romantic type: his very surname suggests the open spaces of the ‘meads’ (i.e., meadows) of the countryside rather than the modern city, while his habit of walking around the city at night recalls the French idea of the flaneur: a writer or artist who would wander around the city, garnering inspiration for his writing and engaging in people-watching. The story is set in the year 2053, when most people have become so reliant on technology that they no. But like most utopias it is only achieved by destroying the natural instincts of humans, both the bad and the good together. The Pedestrian is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. we activate and begin to explore a complex and potentially fruitful analogy between the way a person’s physical and intellectual powers wax and wane over the course of a single human life and the way the sun’s powers wax and wane over the course of a single day, between. Of course, crime has all but disappeared, so we can see how this new world would appear to be some sort of utopia. Metaphor is a poetically or rhetorically ambitious use of words. Mead must be sent away to be ‘cured’ of his unorthodox thinking so he can fall in line with the rest of the population. ![]() When he reveals himself to be a writer (again, aligning himself with the creative, imaginative, and independently minded), we also learn that he hasn’t sold anything for years because nobody buys books or magazines any more. ![]()
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