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Examples Of Dystopia In The Veldt

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The Veldt: A Dystopia

No matter how much humanity progresses, perfection will never be achieved. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is a perfect example of a dystopia because it shows themes described in Shelby Ostergaard’s text Someone Might Be Watching, such as a reflection to our society, over reliance on technology, and how dystopias are a dark side to our dreams. At the start of Shelby Ostergaard’s description of a dystopia she stated “Dystopias […] reflect the society that we live in” (Ostergaard 3). The Veldt reflects our society when the parents try to take away the children's nursery “The tantrum he threw […] they live for the nursery” the children in the story reflect the children in our real life because children in our world live for technology such as iPads, if a parent was to take away a child’s iPad they would react the same way as …show more content…

Next Ostergaard describes that the constant push towards perfection would lead not towards a utopia but to a dystopia. She states that “Dystopias are the dark sides of our dreams” which is shown when George goes into the nursery and thinks about how the nursery used to be filled with fairy tales but is now filled with the warmth and death of Africa (Ostergaard 4). It is also shown that nursery used to be a dream for George when he says, “But nothing’s too good for our children” (Bradbury 1). Then Peter displays over-reliance on technology when he says “would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath” (Bradbury 8). This is a clear example of how “technology becomes a compulsion” because he is unable to do these things on his own, he needs the technology (Ostergaard 1). At the end of the story the children become so mad about the parents taking away their

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