Even in the short excerpt that I read, you can tell that Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt”, is a harrowing story about the technological world. Right from the beginning you can tell that the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. Hadley and their children is strained, and it is due to technology. Once you get to the end of the excerpt, it makes you believe that George and Lydia will do what’s best for their kids and turn off the nursery, a simulation room. However, that idea comes crashing down once the children and Lydia convince George to turn the nursery back on and results in the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Hadley. This eerie tale makes you think about whether or not that could ever happen to us, especially with the up and coming use of AI and all of the current advancements we have in technology. However I do have a few questions about the story:
- Did Ray Bradbury believe that there would be an evil coming to get us because of curiosity towards advancing technology?
- How did the author come up with such extensive technological machines? For example, the shoe tier and bath scrubber because even today we don’t have things like that.
- Did Ray Bradbury draw inspiration for this story from Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? Considering that “Brave New World” was written more than a decade in advance and draws similar attention to the dangers of technological advancement.
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