The Veldt Analysis

New Technology And Its Hidden Costs
Anaïs Nabi
English 10
Monday, October 19th 2015 Have you ever thought how often you’re using technology in your life? Having less likely more and more technology can provoke a big change into one’s family. For the Hadley family, George and Lydia, father and mother of two children, Peter and Wendy, having a Happy-life Home with a special nursery room in their life is all it counts to them. In this short story ‘’The Veldt’’, Ray Bradbury invites all readers to observe the miserable reality between the Hadley’s family lack of relationship when they take technology on a whole other level.

Every one wants to avoid many chores in every possible way, such as doing the laundry, make dinner and more. But for the Hadley family, they have gone too far. They have let the house do so much for them, that they have lost touch with reality and with their inner responsibilities as human beings. When time has come to Lydia for her to supposedly cook, she only ‘’watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for four’’ (p.115). As a mother, she is lazy and doesn't mind at all, for her excuse is that technology is taking care of her houseworks. As for the father, ’’George Hadley, bemused, sat watching the

Throughout the story, Lydia is really upset because all the little devices, such as the ‘’automatic scrub bath’’, were supposed to make their lives easier, but instead, they make not only her, but everyone else useless. While Lydia realize that the nursery is a bad influence, she and George finally approves that they should shut down the whole house and live in a simple manner, the way everyone did in the past. When George suggests the idea to Wendy and Peter, they are definitely against it, although George still decides closing it