Envision a world in which all your actions, thoughts, and feelings are reliant upon technology and artificial intelligence. Through dystopian literature, the author utilizes characters, settings, and dialogue to convey the importance of ethical lessons. In the texts “The Veldt” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, the narrator conveys how self-reliance on technology can lead to the loss of balance between artificial intelligence and nature unless one is willing to set limits for themselves. First of all, in “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the increasing power of augmented reality creates fear among the Hadley family as the images it created were ‘“too real” prompting the parents to be ‘“afraid” and “lock the nursery for a few days until [they got their] nerves settled”’(Bradbury 4). After seeing the vividly authentic images created by…show more content… By describing the fire as “moving with ease”, the author emphasizes the true power of natural forces even when artificial intelligence is capable of thriving without human existence. Furthermore, in “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, even as ‘“the dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing”, the artificial house failed to realize the dog’s feeling of desperation in a life-deprived society, as the only sorrow in the house following the animal’s death was the one brought by “the regiments of mice [who] hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind”’(Bradbury 2). Following the disappearance of humans, the family dog sat lonely awaiting death, and due to its lack of emotion, the technologies in the artificial house failed to provide the dog with any sense of comfort even in its last moments. By including the death of a helpless pet in the story, the author conveys the emotionless nature of artificial
