In Ray Bradbury's short story, The Veldt, he invites us to imagine a future in which there is a device capable of recreating any scene directly from a user's image. entirely credible imagination. This technology is used to entertain children, in devices called crèches. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay Like many things in literature, I believe this is not meant to be taken literally, and Bradbury's intention here is to satirize our relationship with the technology we let's create. The nursery, which can make anything you can imagine come to life, is designed to represent our growing ability to use technology for our own purposes. I think the following quote1 gives a good impression of what I mean: “Don't let them! » Peter moaned to the ceiling, as if he were talking to the house, to the nursery. “Don’t let Father kill everything.” He turned to his father. “Oh, I hate you!” “Insults won’t get you anywhere.” “I wish you were dead!” "We have been for a long time. Now we're really going to start living. Instead of being manipulated and massaged, we're going to live." Wendy was still crying and Peter joined her again. “Just a moment, just a moment, just another crib moment,” they moaned. “Oh, George,” said the woman, “it can’t hurt.” "Fine – fine, if they'll just shut up. One minute, mind you, and then it's gone forever." “Daddy, daddy, daddy!” the children sang, smiling, with wet faces. "And then we're going on vacation. David McClean is coming back in half an hour to help us move and get to the airport. I'm going to get dressed. You turn on the nursery for a minute, Lydia, just one minute, mind you." Peter says "I wish you were dead" and his father doesn't think anything of it, not an atypical outburst from a stubborn, indignant child. Unfortunately for Peter, his house is equipped with. 'a device designed to extract and amplify these thoughts directly from Peter's head and make them real. In "ordinary" life, the father would be protected from his child's deadly impulses by a difference in strength. unable to kill his father But with the advent of technology, "the nursery" inadvertently gave this power to the child This is a very important quote in this work because I believe it reveals the. message that Bradbury is trying to convey The child in this story is not meant to be interpreted literally, but as a metaphor for ourselves and our stupid destructive tendencies. He fears that we could develop powerful technology without understanding or respecting the danger that power could pose to us. There is an added layer here, which is that our supposed better nature, adults in this metaphor, are unable to resist the temptation to indulge children. They give in, “just a minute” says the father, but it’s a minute too late. The foolish children carried out their plan, metaphorically our worst nature got the better of us. Interestingly, this story was published in 1950, when the Cold War was beginning to heat up between the United States and Russia and the nuclear issue was on everyone's minds. Perhaps, and I think it is likely, the metaphor here can be applied to Bradbury's reflections on the situation we found ourselves in at that time. Our technology had advanced to the point where world powers could annihilate each other a thousand.