Comparing The Veldt And The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury mostly writes about technology in his book The Illustrated Man. He does show that technology can be beneficial, but, overall he really shows the harmful effects of technology. Bradbury uses imagery to put detailed pictures in the readers head of what technology would be like if it was too advanced. He especially shows this in the two short stories “The Veldt” and “Marionettes Inc.” In the story “The Veldt” Bradbury shows how technology can be harmful by using an average family from the future. In this story the family owns robots who do everything for them, even tying their shoes! The two children, Wendy and Peter, have a nursery where anything they could ever imagine comes to life off the walls. Wendy and Peter’s parents shut the nursery down along with the robots after hearing screaming coming from the nursery every night. The two children were not happy with their parents’ decision and started throwing a tantrum. “The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and …show more content…
This story is about two men, Smith and Braling, and these robots called Marionettes who can take the place of you and are so realistic it is hard to know if it is you or the Marionette. Throughout the story Smith is trying to convince Braling to get a Marionette and leave his wife to go to Rio with him. Braling gives in and gets the Marionette’s business card. When Braling goes to get money for the Marionette he notices that $10,000 is missing, “Hold on here! Ten thousand dollars is missing! What’s she done with it? What’s Nettie done with it? More hats, more clothes, more perfume?...’Nettie’ he cried… Tick tick tick tick”(240-241) Braling heard a ticking in her chest like he heard in Smith’s Marionette, and realized that his wife had taken $10,000n to get her own Marionette and left him for an unknown amount of