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The Veldt
Bradbury uses imagery and foreshadowing to create and maintain suspense in this short story. The story constantly brings us back, through the eyes of the increasingly anxious parents, to the...
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The Veldt
The HappyLife home is a marvel of futuristic technological conveniences. First, there is the Nursery, of course, which is a huge panoramic video projection room that creates incredibly realistic...
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The Veldt
In Bradbury's "The Veldt," the Happy Home and the nursery satirize modern society's tendency to equate happiness with comfort and ease. The Happy Home is a technological marvel that does everything...
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The Veldt
Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" is centered around technological advancement and wild inventions. The story's two most obvious unusual technological devices would be the nursery and the HappyLife Home....
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The Veldt
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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The Veldt
For Wendy and Peter, the nursery is the center of their lives in their Happylife home. The home does everything for the family, leaving the family, especially, Mrs. Hadley, at loose ends. The...
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The Veldt
There are many reasons why Ray Bradbury used Rima as the antithesis to the lions in his 1950 short story "The Veldt." Rima is a character created by Wiliam Henry Hudson in his 1904 work entitled...
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The Veldt
The children, Peter and Wendy, generally misbehave in a manner that we would expect; they act contrary to their parent's wishes when they aren't being directly observed, deflect blame, and then...
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The Veldt
The problem is that George and Lydia have allowed the house to become the children's parent. The nursery, a "virtual" world, has become the only world the children want to live in. Even George and...
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The Veldt
George thinks that the room is broken and Lydia thinks it is in a rut because the children have been thinking about Africa for too long. The Hadleys invested in a HappyLife home, which is a fully...
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The Veldt
The house takes care of the Hadley family’s every need. The Hadley family paid a fortune for the technological marvel that is their house. The house is an automated smart home of sorts, but it...
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Ray Bradbury
George and Lydia are anxious in general over the amount of time their children, Wendy and Peter, are spending in the nursery, watching scenes of the African veldt on their giant viewscreens....
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The Veldt
The family is used to demonstrate how people have become too dependent on technology. Technology can make our lives easier. However, there comes a point when it runs our lives instead of us using...
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The Veldt
Check out another of Bradbury's short stories called "There Will Come Soft Rains." In that story, a nuclear war has occurred. The family is dead but the automated house continues to operate for a...
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The Veldt
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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The Veldt
Several of Bradbury's works include themes relating to technology, and a surface-level analysis might portray him and his themes as ascetic or having Luddite tones, because technology is typically...
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The Veldt
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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The Veldt
Some other lines in Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" that personify the Happylife Home operating system occur after the psychologist visits the Hadley home and George Hadley decides to turn off the...
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There Will Come Soft Rains
While "The Veldt" is a critique on neglectful parenting, the reason for the neglect is caused by an unhealthy reliance on technology. The general theme of the danger of technology is illustrated in...
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The Veldt
After being scared by the lions, Lydia tells George that she has become increasingly nervous. She suppose that her nerves are a result of having so little to do. With the house performing almost...
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The Veldt
George and Lydia's Happylife Home plays a number of roles in the story -- not least, it can be understood as the true antagonist, the force that undermines their parental authority and drives a...
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Lydia, the mother, recognizes that the children have become too attached to the nursery. She also fears the nursery, which is why she asks George to lock it up for a few days. She is also the one...
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The Veldt
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 Veldt
"Keeping a promise" means doing what you say you are going to do. The Hadleys are not very good at keeping promises. Or, at least, they are not good at being decisive. It is hard for George to know...
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The Veldt
This is an interesting question. The word nursery functions in "The Veldt" on three levels: First, it echoes the attic nursery in Peter Pan, which is the starting point for the children to fly to...
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The Veldt
The "Happylife Home" advertises the pinnacle of convenience for families. It includes a kitchen that will cook all your meals for you, a house that will put your children to bed, and so on. With...
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The Veldt
The influence of technology on society and social relations is a common theme in many of Bradbury's works. Although Bradbury didn't necessarily dislike technology, he was concerned that technology...
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When you write "the elements of fiction," I'm led to believe you're talking about these: plot, conflict, characters, setting, and point of view. So I'll give a brief overview of each....
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The Veldt
"The Veldt" has two settings: the Happylife Home where the Hadley family lives, and within that, the nursery with its viewscreens that are almost always set to an African veldt. The significance of...
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The Veldt
The world the children create is the one they inhabit in the nursery. It's remarkable, their father, Mr. Hadley remarks, just how much the viewcreens there can pick up "telepathic emanations" from...
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The Veldt
The Happylife Home and the nursery are used to satirize the value that people place on material objects and technology. Author Ray Bradbury commented not long before his death that he once...
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The Veldt
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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The Veldt
When it came to the intersections of technology, convenience, and entertainment, Bradbury was often rather ambivalent. This can be seen in many of his stories, most notably Fahrenheit 451, in which...
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The Veldt
It is ironic that the Hadleys live in something called a "Happy" life home because the home has made them miserable. Their house might be more accurately named Miserylife. The Hadleys believed that...
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The Veldt
To guess what happened to the parents, we need to go back a few lines, to the period before David McClean arrives. At that point, we learn the following about the parents, who are trapped in the...
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The Veldt
A critique of technology lies at the heart of "The Veldt," and that critique rests on the premise that the promises of technolgy are deceptive. Technology, in a word, lies to us. The Hadleys buy...
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The Veldt
Lydia Hadley, the mother, is concerned that the automated house (namely, the nursery) is having a detrimental effect on the children. She is the first to suggest, to George, that they should have...
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The Veldt
Both parents show fear of the lions on the viewscreens in the nursery early on in the story. Soon afterwards, Lydia says to George: I feel like I don't belong here. ... Can I compete with an...
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Strictly speaking, the children's names don't come from any fairy tale. They come from Peter Pan, which feels like a fairy tale because of how Barrie wrote it, but which is very much a modern...
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The Veldt
In “The Veldt,” we see several consequences of immersing oneself in virtual reality and how it can affect those who do it. First of all, using virtual reality to escape real life is dangerous....
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The nursery makes the children lose their sense of right and wrong because it is part of a high tech "Happylife" house that has taken over the parenting function. As their mother, Lydia Hadley,...
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The Veldt
Here are the two similes that Ray Bradbury uses to describe Peter and Wendy: They have "cheeks like peppermint candy." They also have "eyes like bright blue agate marbles." What is ironic about...
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The Happylife Home and nursery in "The Veldt" satirize the inventions of the early 20th Century that made life more convenient for many Americans and the rise of television, which became a regular...
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The Veldt
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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The Veldt
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 Veldt
“The Veldt”, an unnerving story about how technology can change and influence children, shows how in Bradbury’s creepy society, the parents have little control over their overindulged...
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The Veldt
The term "nursery" suggests a place where the children are raised, not kept entertained, which is why Ray Bradbury's word choice in "The Veldt" is extremely important. David McClean, the...
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The Veldt
On one level, the mood of "The Veldt" is clearly one of fear and paranoia. We can sense this from the very first lines of the story: "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery." "What's wrong with...
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The Veldt
The nightmare that George refers to is the $30,000 Happylife House he and his wife have purchased. In hindsight, as his children turn into spoiled monsters, he can see that the house reflected...
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The Veldt
In "The Veldt," Ray Bradbury might be suggesting that society, particular parents, generally finds a way for children to be constantly spoiled and entertained. The entire premise of the story...