Throughout “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, specific literary techniques are used to demonstrate that human nature can easily become violent and vulgar.
Bradbury presents the idea that humans can quickly become vicious through amplification. When George sits at the table waiting for his house to serve dinner, Bradbury uses amplification in his thoughts and George thinks, “They were awfully young, Wendy and Peter, for death thoughts. Or, no, you were never too young, really” (4). After considering the idea that Wendy and Peter might be too young to understand or wish for death, he thinks over this again and comes to a contradictory realization that they likely do understand it. The amplification of George goes on to say, “Long before you knew what …show more content…
In addition to understanding the idea of death, George knows that they likely wish for the death of someone else which turns out to be him and his wife, Lydia. This amplification goes on even further to state, “When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns” (4). Bradbury stresses that no one is too young for violent thoughts like death and allows his character George to relate this to his own children.
In “The Veldt,” foreshadowing is used to describe that humans can become effortlessly brutal. At the very beginning of the story, Lydia suggests something wrong with the nursery by saying, “I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it” (1). Under normal circumstances with a normal nursery, a repairman might be called. However, in this situation, calling the psychologist suggests that the nursery …show more content…
After the children have killed their parents, the psychologist comes to their house for their original plan of going on a vacation without the nursery. During this time, the children have no sympathy for what they have done and have truly grown to become vicious people. Psychologist David McClean asks, “‘Where are your father and mother?’” (13) and in reply, “The children looked up and smiled. “Oh, they’ll be here directly’” (13). The children are happy and satisfied with their achievement in their violent actions. Their human nature has become cruel to the extent that they don’t feel bad for killing their own parents. Furthermore, when the psychologist begins to sense that something was wrong, Wendy remains completely neutral and doesn’t feel the guilt to tell anyone what she has done. She says, “A cup of tea?” (13). The children don’t feel their culpability at all. Overall, “The Veldt” demonstrates how human nature can go wrong in the blink of an
Bradbury presents the idea that humans can quickly become vicious through amplification. When George sits at the table waiting for his house to serve dinner, Bradbury uses amplification in his thoughts and George thinks, “They were awfully young, Wendy and Peter, for death thoughts. Or, no, you were never too young, really” (4). After considering the idea that Wendy and Peter might be too young to understand or wish for death, he thinks over this again and comes to a contradictory realization that they likely do understand it. The amplification of George goes on to say, “Long before you knew what …show more content…
In addition to understanding the idea of death, George knows that they likely wish for the death of someone else which turns out to be him and his wife, Lydia. This amplification goes on even further to state, “When you were two years old you were shooting people with toy guns” (4). Bradbury stresses that no one is too young for violent thoughts like death and allows his character George to relate this to his own children.
In “The Veldt,” foreshadowing is used to describe that humans can become effortlessly brutal. At the very beginning of the story, Lydia suggests something wrong with the nursery by saying, “I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it” (1). Under normal circumstances with a normal nursery, a repairman might be called. However, in this situation, calling the psychologist suggests that the nursery …show more content…
After the children have killed their parents, the psychologist comes to their house for their original plan of going on a vacation without the nursery. During this time, the children have no sympathy for what they have done and have truly grown to become vicious people. Psychologist David McClean asks, “‘Where are your father and mother?’” (13) and in reply, “The children looked up and smiled. “Oh, they’ll be here directly’” (13). The children are happy and satisfied with their achievement in their violent actions. Their human nature has become cruel to the extent that they don’t feel bad for killing their own parents. Furthermore, when the psychologist begins to sense that something was wrong, Wendy remains completely neutral and doesn’t feel the guilt to tell anyone what she has done. She says, “A cup of tea?” (13). The children don’t feel their culpability at all. Overall, “The Veldt” demonstrates how human nature can go wrong in the blink of an