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Technology In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

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The Veldt - by Ray Bradbury (-- removed HTML --) . In “The Veldt”, a man and his wife are killed by their children, via the very machines designed to increase their quality of life. What happened? As a brief discourse: in this setting, it is now possible for people to get houses that do everything for them, from cook to clean to rock you to sleep. It’s also possible to get a “nursery” room that can create an environment mirroring the thoughts of the individual within the room. Bradbury uses the actions of his characters and personification to show that, strangely, enough, technology can cause more problems than thought. The root of the problem points right to the flawed actions of the characters. George Hadley just wants the best for his family. That’s all he wants. This also means that he buys him and his family the best automated house and the virtual …show more content…

His actions influenced his children’s personalities by making them believe that everything was theirs, and that if they asked, they could have it. The next mistakes George Hadley made were denying the children a trip to New York (because they were too young) and (in a rare show of discipline) locking the nursery door. Now, this would come as a big shock for Peter and Wendy (the children) - remember, their parents had not denied them anything up until this point - and they would be EXTREMELY offended - offended enough to wish death on their own parents. This is where the nursery comes in. It used to have all the classic children’s fairy tales swimming through it, from Alice to Aladdin, but now it is stuck on one scene, in one place. That scene is the hot African veldt, with a constant sound of oddly familiar screams and lions eagerly devouring unidentifiable corpses. However, as the parents find out

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