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The Veldt
When George and Lydia Hadley consult with a psychologist, David McClean, McClean informs them that this technology could be employed to gain insight into the psychology of the children who use it....
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Bradbury seems to conceive of children as very intelligent, capable, and potentially manipulative creatures. Wendy and Peter Hadley, the children of George and Lydia Hadley, have manipulated the...
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What's particularly ironic about the story is that the automated Happylife Home is the very latest in modern technology, and yet it unleashes savage impulses in the children that hark back to the...
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The children, Peter and Wendy, are discussed, and their characters are foreshadowed before they appear in the story. There is already strong evidence that their parents spoil them. The nursery cost...
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At the beginning of the story, Lydia Hadley is conscious of the fact that her children's nursery has changed, indicating some change in their children's mental health and well-being. She asks her...
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Peter's petulant outburst is in response to his father George's long-overdue decision to close down the nursery in their automated home. George and his wife, Lydia, have become increasingly...
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The screaming noises coming from the nursery at the beginning of "The Veldt" are the eventual screams of George and Lydia Hadley, as imagined by their children Wendy and Peter. The primary setting...
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The two children, Wendy and Peter, have been spoiled by the house and the nursery—as well as by their parents, who let them have whatever they want. This has made them stubborn, dishonest, and...
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George and Lydia Hadley are submissive parents, who allow their children to run the home, act disrespectful, and walk all over them. George and Lydia Hadley initially purchased the Happylife Home...
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When George Hadley says that "Children are carpets, they should be stepped on occasionally," he is communicating that he blames his children for the fear he feels surrounding the strange behavior...
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As the Hadley parents comes to understand, the Happylife house they have purchased has taken over as the parent of the children. As Mrs. Hadley puts it, The house is wife and mother now, and...
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George's opening attitude toward the Happylife home and nursery is one of pleasure and satisfaction at being able to afford a house that pampers his family and a forty-by-forty-by-thirty-foot...
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In "The Veldt" Ray Bradbury uses a number of literary allusions, many of them related to Peter Pan. Most of the other allusions in the story are also taken from famous children's books, and there's...
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The Veldt
In the science fiction short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, George and Lydia install a virtual nursery in their technologically advanced home. In it, their children are able to construct...
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Ray Bradbury's message in "The Veldt" is that while technology improves physical conditions for humans, it distances the humans from one another and destroys what is truly the human spirit....
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The mood in Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" is one of foreboding. From the opening, in which Mrs. Hadley asks her husband to look at the nursery and he asks what's "wrong" with it, we know that...
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Technology plays a prominent role in the Hadley household and has completely consumed their entire family. George and Lydia Hadley purchased a technologically advanced Happylife Home, which is...
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Certainly, George and Lydia seem to allow the house to do the majority of their parenting, and this is probably why the children, Wendy and Peter, refuse to listen to them when they do attempt to...
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Both Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" and Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" are cautionary tales. They each took themes and trends already present in the United States at the time they were written in...
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Arguably, the main message of "The Veldt" is that people should not be over-reliant on technology, and this is shown clearly by the story's main events. When the Hadleys install the HappyLife Home,...
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The Hadleys move into the Happylife Home, their automated dream house that does everything for them. They pay extra for a nursery with walls that act as super-realistic television screens. Though...
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George and Lydia's Happylife Home is a technologically advanced house that is completely automated. The smart home performs everyday duties like automatically cleaning and also entertains the...
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In "The Veldt," Bradbury shows technology in a negative light; as, among other things, a major contributory factor to the generation gap. George and Lydia don't really understand the new technology...
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The house is fully automated, and helps the family with many household chores and functions. The house is a special HappyLife Home, and it is a very unique house. It is a technological marvel,...
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Wendy and Peter are entitled, selfish children who are forever disobeying their parents and escaping into their technologically advanced smart nursery. The interactive nursery within the Happylife...
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The message is that you should be careful of depending too much on technology. A secondary message is that you should form relationships with your children, rather than distancing yourself from...
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It seems evident that Mr. and Mrs. Hadley were eaten by the lions from the veldt scene that plays on the walls of the nursery. This is foreshadowed by such events as Mr. McClean finding Mrs....
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This passage occurs early on in the story. It is telling us the thoughts that are going through George Hadley's mind. George's wife, Lydia, has expressed concern about the children's nursery or...
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George and Lydia Hadley purchased an automated HappyLife Home to make their lives significantly easier and to please their needy, entitled children. The HappyLife Home is a technologically advanced...
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Mr. and Mrs. Hadley bought the Happylife Home because they believed, as its name suggests, it would give them with a happy life. The home has a state-of-the-art children's nursery with...
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That the Happylife Home system has not made George and Lydia Hadley particularly happy is evinced in their anxieties about the nursery. "It's just that the nursery is different now than it was,"...
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One key way Bradbury uses sentence structure effectively is in using dialogue to drive much of "The Veldt." Much of the dialogue is tense and urgent. The responses George and Lydia give each other...
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Bradbury is known for his use of sensory language, language which describes using sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch. Such language is called imagery. In "The Veldt," Bradbury uses imagery to...
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The initial complication centers on Lydia's anxiety. She is anxious because the hyperrealistic virtual reality glass walls in her children's nursery frighten her. This anxiety is really, however,...
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George Hadley bought an expensive Happylife Home that is fully automated, to the point where his wife feels the house is raising her children more than she is. The feature that concerns them most...
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A thematic statement is the theme, or main idea of the story; however, in addition, it tries to comment on humanity as a whole. The typical structure includes the title, author, genre, then the...
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The background of the conversation is that the Hadley parents, George and Lydia, have become increasingly worried about their children Peter and Wendy's obsessive fascination with the African veldt...
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In "The Veldt," The children's playroom in the Happylife Home is programmed to respond to the children's thoughts. It operates based on telepathy to create the environment that the children...
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David McClean is the psychologist that George and Lydia Hadley invite to look at their nursery. He thinks that George and Lydia have spoiled their children "more than most." He also says that they...
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The parents first find the father's, George Hadley's, wallet in the nursery. It has been chewed by the lions, has the lions' saliva on it and is bloody. Later, they find the mother's bloody scarf...
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Clearly, the major instigating incident that leads the children to take such terrible revenge on their parents comes when George and Lydia feel that their children have been spending too much time...
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Bradbury uses vivid sensory detail in this short story to describe the African veldt that the children watch on the viewscreens in their nursery. These details paint the picture of a savage,...
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Peter and Wendy (named after two of the characters in Peter Pan) are the product of a generation that depends too heavily on technology. While Bradbury often warns against the dangers of...
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In the short story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, George and Lydia Hadley build their two children, Peter and Wendy, an automated nursery that carries out all the functions that parents would perform...
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The atmosphere, or emotional tone, of Ray Bradbury's story is created through through the use of sensory descriptive words and the dialogue of the characters. Lydia's initial conversation with her...
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Suspense is created through the use of foreshadowing. Suspense is the interest a reader has in a story. It is the feeling of wondering what is going to happen and wanting to keep reading to find...
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Technology hurts relationships in "The Veldt" because it has replaced the roles of caretaker, entertainer and disciplinarian, rendering parents useless and children antisocial. This can be observed...
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Before he turns off the nursery and many of the other electronic conveniences in the house, George Hadley speaks with his friend, Dr. David McClean, a psychologist, who tells George, "You've let...
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In Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt," George and Lydia Hadley purchase an expensive nursery for their children, Peter and Wendy, that projects their thoughts and creations onto the walls. The...
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The answer to this question is clearly indicated when George, out of desperation at trying to understand his children and their worrying attachment to the nursery, brings in McClean, the...