Guthrie Theater

Ray Bradbury once said, “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” He wrote many science fiction stories about the future and they normally never ended well. We should listen and try to avoid the futures he wrote about in The Pedestrian, The Veldt, There will come Soft Rains, and A Sound of Thunder. If we don’t, we might end up like the characters from the stories. So what exactly were the general warnings given to us in the stories he wrote? "The car moved down the empty…

Technology is Bad if You Rely on it In the stories “Robot Dreams” and “The Veldt,” it is proven that technology is not always a positive thing that can help improve society. The authors of these stories tell us that if you rely on technology too much it can bounce back on you through the characters in the literature. Us humans can’t be around technology to much or it will negatively impact us negatively. In “The Veldt,” the Hadley family relies too much on the technology in their Happylife…

Authors often times base their stories on the fears of the public, and that's exactly what Ray Bradbury did. Not all technology is good for mankind, In the stories “The Veldt” and “Marionettes Inc.” Ray Bradbury is trying to show the consequences of new technology through psychological changes, wasted time, and the poorer treatment of humans. The psychological changes on humans are evident, and can be traced back to the technology in both stories. In the veldt, the children lose their…

The Dread Doctor, Ray Bradbury, was the harbinger of vice he wrote books of futuristic phenomenons, in technology and civilians dependence on it, which ultimately came to be. He wrote famous fables such as The Pedestrian; a short tale about how the nail sticking out always gets hammered, along with Usher II and Veldt which are horror stories of how people have used technology to murder another. Fahrenheit 451, which is a novel about intense censorship, is also one of Bradbury’s most known work…

The play 'The Laramie project' by Moises Kaufman addresses the brutal murder of openly gay teenager Matthew Shepard in a small town of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. The chronological structure of the play draws together interviews conducted after the event by Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theatre Project. Additionally, Kaufman uses these journal entries to retell and reconstruct what happened on the night of Matthew's assault, addressing the issue of gay hate crime. The play itself was…

When we take a look at technology, we only focused on its advantages, but does anyone look at its disadvantages? Ray Bradbury an American author, wrote his short stories and novels portraying the idea that we will let technology consume our minds. “The Pedestrian “ written by Bradbury, was a short story about a man named Leonard Mead. His character is categorized as unusual. The story sets time in 2053 where everybody’s attention is wired to the television. The story starts with Leonard…

Where would we be today without our beloved technology? In today’s time technology is very important to most people, some are unable to live without the technology right by their side. Without the proper use of technology it may affect someone the way they are and also the way they act, The story “The veldt” by Ray Bradbury is about a couple George and Linda, who are very concerned about their children’s nursery room, built in the happy life home so that they can be able to have some time for…

The strongest theme presented in Ray Bradbury’s book, “Fahrenheit 451”, is that technology, if abused, can have an immense hold on one's life. This concept of control on someone's life is clearly illustrated throughout “Fahrenheit 451”. In one such instance on page ten, Mildred is said to have “in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.” Such…

Stewart Brand, an old writer said, “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.” He recognized that the advanced technology in the world may benefit the few individuals who invented it, but has negative effects over others. In “Flowers for Algernon”, a short story written by Daniel Keyes, a man named Charlie Gordon experiences the one thing that he has always wanted: to be smart. However, in the end, the experience was more destructive…

The Veldt Compare & Contrast “The Veldt”, written by Ray Bradbury in 1950, is a story that takes place in what was thought to be the futuristic home of technology. It features a family of four whose life is complete aided by the advancements in technology such as the shoe-shiner or the automatic on/off lights. Although these pieces of technology seem a little outdated compared to what we own now, keep in mind that this was the 1950’s so everything was simply from imagination. Aside from the…