Soft Rains In Ray Bradbury's short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," a mechanical house continues operation even though there is no one left alive for it to provide services for. In the world of the Utopia, the perfect society would ensure that such a house was erected for the purpose of pleasing the humans residing inside of it. The concept of Utopia is a society in which everything is ideal and nothing negative is allowed to exist. Dystopia is the complete opposite, a world in which nothing is good or happy. Everything is desolate and full of despair. Ray Bradbury's story is an example of the latter.

At seven o'clock, the house comes to life although no other life will come. It makes breakfast and tries to awaken humans who have been long dead from a presumed nuclear war. This is indicated by the following passage:...

This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles" (Bradbury 1). In Dystopia, mankind exists in a future, if he exists at all, where his time on the earth is precarious and life can be extinguished at any moment. This story makes it clear that this is a post-Apocalyptic world and that the only life that could possibly exist in this harsh environment are mechanical.
There are hints throughout the story that the only thing alive is the artificial mechanisms within the house itself. "Outside, the garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. After a long wait the door swung down again" (Bradbury 1). The only thing that lives is the artificial house and the random animals and birds that…