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In Ray Bradbury’s story, “The Veldt,” there is a technology called the nursery, which it can do anything a human can do and do it better. It can take children to anywhere they want. This is the reason why the children in the story like the nursery more than their parents and it also shows how the technology can destroy the family relationship. The parents want a good happy family by giving the children the most advance play room. In the other hand, the children developed a strong bond with nursery room. They think it is more important than their parents and eventually kill their own parents.
Ray Bradbury develops the story by using characterization. Each character has specific rule. The first character in “The Veldt”, George Hadley, plays the rule as husband and father. Gorge was the man of the house and his children were obedient to him. That was before the nursery was built. George want to give his children the most advantage technology he could, "They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and
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was good to them"(Bradbury). Since the nursery was built, George lost his voice to his children, Peter and Wendy. They do not care about respecting their parents because the technology is more superior compared to them. One time, George told Wendy to step outside the nursery room but she does not obey. She stayed where her brother, Peter, told her. Her respect for her brother is higher than the respect to her father. Peter and Wendy have traveled to many places without their parent notices, "How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-appearing moon-all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world" "(Bradbury). They obey the technology more than their parents. They spend more time with it than their own parents. Gupta mentioned, “The children are completely attached to the nursery room that took away their interaction with their own parents.”(Gupta). The technology has ruined the relationship between parent and children. Children spend more time with their toys. George and Lydia turned out to be fear of their children, "We've given the children everything they ever wanted. Is this our reward-secrecy, disobedience?" (Bradbury). They even say, “They treat us as if we were offspring.” (Bradbury). The roles in the household are switched because of the technology. The nursery room caused the conflict in Ray Bradbury’s story. The children begin to like the nursery more than their own parents, and it is the reason why the parents are killed in the end. “Peter and Wendy had a change in their attitude towards their parent. They gain negative thoughts causing them to become unpredictable, after their parents took away the nursery.”(Gupta). The parents have spent so much money for their happiness. Peter and Wendy’s behavior change, more like the nursery has controlled them. In return, they take the greatest gift and killed their parents. The nursery is located inside of the Happylife Home. “The house, governed so efficiently by the nursery room, is certainly seen in Bradbury’s story as a ghostly house, its nature hidden behind artificial intelligence.” (Foley) When people think of the nursery, they usually picture it as a safe, happy place in which children can play and interact with their caregivers. In this story, however, Bradbury has injected a twist. From the name of the home, it seems like a dream home where everything is so peaceful and amazing. However, there is nothing actually happy about this home because it only ruins the family and causes the parents death. George noticed the changed in Peter and Wendy but he could not do anything about it. David McClean asked George “Didn't you sense this before?” "I sensed only that you bad spoiled your children more than most. And now you're letting them down in some way. What way?" (Bradbury). The nursery causes the children to rule their parent’s thoughts because the nursery can do anything they desire. In the story the parents say, “We've never lifted a hand. They're insufferable—let's admit it. They come and go when they like; they treat us as if we were offspring.” (Bradbury). The nursery made Peter and Wendy think they could do anything to anyone, include to their parents. The Veldt reveals personal life of Bradbury that he is not a fan of technology.
Bradbury is not shy in his metaphors, depicting the story’s most technologically advanced element as a cruel and hot African veldt. Mankind began there. We rose up through our mastery of nature. Now, the mastery is a detriment.” (Boyd) In “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury develops the theme of man versus technology. This short story was written around the 1950’s that were around the invention of the television. It was a completely new and futuristic device. The nursery was used to symbolize the invention of the television. Ray Bradbury believed that machines are eventually going to take over the world. It is the reason people should think twice before buying any technology for their children, especially in young
age. In the end, technology wins because the parents are brutally murdered. Peter and Wendy symbolize the parents. The nursery makes the children feel like they have higher rank than their parents. “But as the parents struggle to decide between what technology is harmful or helpful for their children, similarly questions arise about the two adults.” (Boyd). George and Lydia did the best for their children. In return, they got nothing, except the painful death. “Peter comments on how the house provides everything they consider necessary to live, also stating, at the same time, that the house is life now, for it gives all that life is supposed to give.” (Foley) Peter and Wendy do not care if their parents are alive or not, because the nursery gave everything they need. The technology is a two sided knife. It can be useful but also harmful. It depends on how to use it, use in what circumstance. Ray Bradbury successfully told the story in The Veldt. He showed the technology winning because of the desire to keep playing in the nursery of Peter and Wendy. The parents have spent so much money just for the happiness of their children. In return, they get the gift of being killed by their own children. The parents made an obvious mistake by putting this high-tech device in their home because the children use this to their advantage in killing them. Works cites Boyd, Jason. “The world the veldt made.” The NerdClave.14 May.2014. Web. 1Nov. 2015. http://nerdclave.com/home/world-veldt-made/ Bradbury, Ray. “The Veldt.” MVCC Course Documents Foley, Matt. “Haunted Destiny: Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Veldt’.” The Fothic Imagination. U of Stirling, 22 July.2015. Web. 8 Nov. 2015. http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/blog/haunted-destiny-ray-bradburys-the-veldt/ Gupta, Shyamanta. “The Veldt vs Modern Technology is Changing the Way our Brains work, say Neuroscientist.” The Art of Literature. Blogspot April. 2012. Web. 1 Nov. 2015. http://shyamanta-gupta.blogspot.com/2012/04/veldt-vs-modern-technology-is-changing.html
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