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Analysis Of The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

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The limitations of applied science and technology are exactly mirrored by Murphy’s law that states: „anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. Although there is irony in the statement, it truly represents the infinite mission of scientists (and, in Murphy’s case, engineers), who need to find solutions to problems, and often face the fact, that their idea worked for a while, but the ultimate problem can not be fixed utterly. Driven by human curiosity, enhanced by creativity, science is utterly a human creation. Hence, it has the legacy of the nature of human thinking with all its limits and faults. One of these faults can be driven from the human ego, which enables people to create a brave new world as well as to tamper with phenomena, not …show more content…

The Reader is shown a world in which the materialistic necessities of people are fulfilled: the house the characters (a family) live in cleans itself and serves them to the extent, that they do not have to do anything physical for their own comfort. However, as the adults realise, life under such technological conditions is so simple, that it deforms their way of thinking and interferes with their idea of self. The wife feels almost useless, as the housework she used to do is done by the house. The father seems to have no words to make explicit what he feels, but the influence of the house is shown by changes in his lifestyle (drinking and smoking more, just to spend time somehow). As the parents were adults and their personality was formed by the time they faced the challenges of living in a Happylife Home, the distortion of their personality was not so profound, and they posessed the wisdom to realize the problem and were also brave to take the steps towards a healthier …show more content…

The conflict becomes explicit during the conversation of Peter and his father, who disagree over locking the nursery. On the surface, the latter is the subject of the dispute, but actually, two life phylosophies crash. George Hadley represents a somewhat old, and seemingly outdated (at least in the age they live in) view of a productive and active life, whereas his son prefers staying passive and is emotionally bounded to gadgets (to the nursery and the house) more than to his father. As a result, when he is forced to choose between the latter two, he does not hesitate to choose the

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