Similarities Between The Veldt And Fahrenheit 451

In the Veldt and Fahrenheit 451 there were many eye opening events and stories throughout the books. The Veldt described a lot of future technology and the effect it had or would have on people in the future, as does Fahrenheit 451. Both of the books had many examples of the negative aspect of technology. It ended up ruining relationships among families and friends even though it seemed helpful in the beginning.

The theme in Fahrenheit 451 is similar to the theme of the Veldt, how the technology in both seemed to take control of people’s lives. The characters of the books didn’t know how to function without it. They couldn’t listen to anything or anyone else. In Fahrenheit 451, When Montag would try to talk to his wife, Mildred about

the books he stole, she’d completely shut down because “the family” would tell her other things and that he was wrong about books, so she wouldn’t listen to Montag. (Bradbury p.76) The way Mildred felt about the TV’s in the house she called her “family” was similar, if not the same, as the way the kids in The Veldt felt about their “nursery”. The children became so obsessed with the nursery their parents gave them, that when they got too carried away they killed their parents for taking it away. (Bradbury)

The Plot of the stories are more of a warning for future of technology and how to handle it without becoming consumed by it completely to the point it starts to control you.

The theme of The Veldt and Fahrenheit 451 are similar to WALL-E how there isn’t any communication or interaction among humans because of overuse of technology. The characters are so disconnected from each other, they don’t know how to act when it comes time to talk to people. Nobody knows how to work together. The two people who met in the middle of the movie seemed as if they had never seen past their tv screens and discovered many new things about the place they’d been living their whole lives. The woman on her chair when WALL-E was trying to get to Eva seemed pretty surprised that somebody was actually trying to talk to her outside of her screen. In Fahrenheit 451, Mildred only talks to Montag when she’s excited about the family or about her pills. (Bradbury)

Of the three movies, The Veldt had the worst outcome with technology. WALL-E showed how technology could try and take control but it didn’t cause the people to do bad things to each other. In Fahrenheit 451 people burned other people’s houses down over books but there wasn’t any actual harm on people until towards the end when the old woman wouldn’t leave all her books to burn. (Bradbury p. 153) In The Veldt the children intentionally had their parents mauled to death by lions. In the end, they all had pretty bad outcomes with technology. It just shows how dangerous it can be. It really did destroy human interaction and relationships in the movie and books.