All too often, parents receive the blame when their children commit horrible crimes, from theft to murder and all amoral acts in-between. But is it truly just the parents fault, or is it a symptom of society and the technology that society develops? In The Veldt, the blame is both on the parents and their technologically advanced house, together they have created spoiled rotten, homicidal children. The house, and in particulary the nursery, does everything from cook dinner to tie their shoelaces, and in so doing, has also stolen their humanity. The parents, being no longer responsible for themselves, have also failed to nurture and discipline the children, the ones who need it the most. The 1950s post war era gave rise to the nuclear family,
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The other problem the children faced, was the fact that their parents had spoiled them with the technology presented by the nursery. Greta
Byrum, in her article for World Economic Forum, brought up the issue Bradbury was trying to convey in 1950 “Within homes, technologies such as television, video games, and smartphones have ushered in daily routines that affect, for better and worse, how parents and children interact with each other” (Byrum 2015). The nursery becomes the children’s surrogate parents, but technology cannot think or feel on it’s own, and cannot rely on objectionable past experiences to base decisions off of. If it has learned any emotions or thoughts, it has done so only by replicating what the children feel. The children who feel alienated from their mother and father, who have no real boundaries or rules, they are the ones who have influenced the nursery's response to the …show more content…
Growing up means responsibilities, work, and worst of all for the children, discipline. George and Lydia Hadley, in spoiling themselves and their children, have constructed their own ending. Spoiled children often have trouble as “Co existing with others becomes difficult and such a child is more likely to make more enemies than friends” (American SPCC 2014) The children, who are spoiled rotten and addicted to their imaginary world, will do anything to keep it, even if it means killing their
The other problem the children faced, was the fact that their parents had spoiled them with the technology presented by the nursery. Greta
Byrum, in her article for World Economic Forum, brought up the issue Bradbury was trying to convey in 1950 “Within homes, technologies such as television, video games, and smartphones have ushered in daily routines that affect, for better and worse, how parents and children interact with each other” (Byrum 2015). The nursery becomes the children’s surrogate parents, but technology cannot think or feel on it’s own, and cannot rely on objectionable past experiences to base decisions off of. If it has learned any emotions or thoughts, it has done so only by replicating what the children feel. The children who feel alienated from their mother and father, who have no real boundaries or rules, they are the ones who have influenced the nursery's response to the …show more content…
Growing up means responsibilities, work, and worst of all for the children, discipline. George and Lydia Hadley, in spoiling themselves and their children, have constructed their own ending. Spoiled children often have trouble as “Co existing with others becomes difficult and such a child is more likely to make more enemies than friends” (American SPCC 2014) The children, who are spoiled rotten and addicted to their imaginary world, will do anything to keep it, even if it means killing their