Themes In The Veldt By Ray Bradbury

The story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury can be an accurate depiction of human relationships in a family. This story focuses on George and Lydia Hadley, their two children, and the tragic events caused by the nursery that they have installed in their futuristic home. Their children Peter and Wendy are inseparable from the nursery. This short story mentions the strained and tense relationship George and Lydia have with their children. Like human relationships, This story shows common themes in family relationships such as the Hadley’s spoiling their children, Peter and Wendy talking back, and some exceptional themes as when the children threaten and then kill their parents. The children are seen complaining about having to do ‘work’, in addition this story also includes something

Whether it’s a small fib like telling your parents you ate the whole packet of cookies, while in reality you gave one to your best friend. Or it could be something bigger like lying to your parents about your whereabouts. In Peter and Wendy’s particular case, they lied about having Africa in the nursery. Peter claims, on page 5 “There’s no Africa in the nursery. [...] I don’t remember any Africa. Do you?” he asks Wendy. She replies with a simple “No.” Wendy then ran to the nursery and changes the scenery from Africa to Rima, it is proven when George, on page 7 says: “Oh, so now you admit you’ve been conjuring Africa, do you?”
When George told the children he would turn off the nursery, they reacted much like teenage children when they get their phones taken away. “The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and and jumped at the furniture.” Teenagers and their phones are inseparable. When you take a phone away, most people tend to get a little anxiety. It is interesting to think that when Ray Bradbury wrote the story in 1950 he predicted that children would be so connected with