Technology In Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

Technology has been consistently increasing its capabilities within the past few years rather quickly, this is nothing new in our modern-day society. Even during the time he was alive, Ray Bradbury had not witnessed the technological advancements of today. Despite being known as one of the best science fiction writers of all time, he feared technological abuses. In our current time, time and time again people disuse technology and exploit its capabilities, similar the children in “The Veldt”. Ray Bradbury displays his justified distrust of technological advancements by the language he uses throughout the literature and the expression of the characters’ loss of humanity due to the increased use of technology.

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To begin, Ray Bradbury never truly talks about the nursery as being a room. There is a mention of it being a room, but by the characters, it is never regarded as simply being a room. The characters, despite knowing it is just a room, perceive it as a living, breathing thing. When George decided to shut the room off, McClean, despite his notions that he believes the room is just a room, makes the statement of the room not wanting to die, because “’Nothing ever likes to die— even a room’” (331). Bradbury specifically uses the terms “death” instead of only “shut off” because this room is regarded as a living being. Due to this language, you can sense the fear surrounding this room. If it was simply a room,

For example, the children have become increasingly violent due to the fantasies that the nursery offers. As McClean says in the text, the technology was meant to be a retreat and a source of releasing emotions (Bradbury 331). Instead, the children have been using it to kill their parents while watching, additionally showing how nonchalant they are about these actions, including picnicking in front of their dead bodies (Bradbury 333). This shows how Bradbury believes that when this technology gets into the wrong hands, it can change people to make them increasingly more violent or it can give a gateway to more violent actions. Bradbury doesn’t say whether the children had violent tendencies before the implementation of the nursery, so we cannot be for sure if the nursery is fueling the children’s already-existing violent nature or if it had caused it, but regardless of the source, it resulted in the violent death of their parents. The children show themselves being hateful, showing a hatred of their parents to the point where they make several threats throughout the text. Since, according to the parents’ reactions, this seems like a much more recent development, we can assume that this is due to the technology and the children essentially becoming hyper dependent of it. Additionally, the family hyper-relies on the technology, causing them to not to know