Technology In The Veldt, By Ray Bradbury

Growing up all we have ever known is the significance of technology in our lives. A day does not go by that we don’t use some form of an electronic. The world has put such a reliability on technology that without it we would be lost. In the short story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, the author depicts a family struggling to hold its ties together as the children are more interested in their nursery, the technology room, rather than their parents putting a strain on a growing relationship. Similar to Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, Mildred, the wife of the main character Montag, can not go a minute without her multiple television screens, neglecting time with her husband and becomes irritated when he tries to engage in conversation for too …show more content…
In the story when the father is threatening to “turn of the whole house off for about a month” and the kids throw a fit it, shows us the spoiledness of children when they don’t agree and the presence it has in our society. With the involvement of the psychologist, it makes the reader actually see how big of problem the nursery has become, especially since the parents can’t even discipline or control their children. When the children get the news of the nursery being shut down they argue and yell “ you can’t do that to our nursery, you can’t” which allows us, the reader, to notice how in a way, the children run the house and their parents. Bradbury then goes to show us the impression technology has made on children by giving us the visual of the aftermath of turning the nursery off and telling us how that simple action has the children saying things along the lines of “ I hate you” and “ I wish you were dead”. These focused points in the story show us the severity of disrespect and cruelty the children direct towards their parents hopefully showing the reader that our irresponsible actions towards are parents are truly “ridiculous and …show more content…
Mildred acts distant from Montag so deeply that the reader can infer she is not happy or satisfied with her life. Everytime we see Mildred in the story she is glued to her television screens. When a conversation between them comes up, she asks for a new screen that is “only two-thousand dollars” even though he just bought one for her. This shows us the selfishness of Mildred in how all she cares about are materialistic television screens instead of appreciativeness towards Montag and his purchasing of screens for her. Mildred's personality in the story is often forgetful and she shows her unpleasantness towards Montag by saying she thought he would “consider [her] sometimes” even though he does everything for her. Technology has such a strong impacts on Mildred’s everyday life that when they are speaking to one another she is “obviously waiting for him to go” and leave her alone with her television. These simple but noticeable actions put a negative association on Mildred that makes the reader stand on the side of Montag. Her ability to dismiss her own husband and narrow in on technology to seek a happiness that her spouse tries to give her shows us that no matter what Montag does to please Mildred, it will never be enough. The reader can then conclude that Mildred’s obsession with her television screens limits her from seeing the reality of what