Disappearance In Georhe Hadley's 'The Veldt'

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All too often, parents receive the blame when their children commit horrible crimes, from theft to murder and all amoral acts in-between. In The Veldt, the blame is on the technologically advanced house. Thus, the blame for spoiled rotten, homicidal children, falls not solely on the parents, but more so on society’s lust for advancement. The house, in doing everything for the occupants has, in a way, 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 nursery becomes their surrogate parents, but technology cannot think or feel on it’s own by relying on objectionable past experiences, if it has learned any emotions or thoughts, it has done so only be replicating what the children feel. The children who feel alienated from their mother and father, who have no real boundaries or rules, and therefore, the technology they have influenced knows no different. …show more content…

He fails because he has no connection emotionally with his children and therefore the children have taugh the nursery to have no connection or recognition of the parents, except distrust and hate. The reason for this is because the parents have the power to take the nursery away from the children, and if that happens, then the nursery will die. In order to sustain it’s own life, the nursery and the children have formed emotional bonds and the parents are therefore the outsiders, or the threat that must be devoured by the

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