Technology Takes a Turn Toward Turmoil Throughout the progression of time, it has been made apparent that technological advances could be potentially dangerous. Ray Bradbury demonstrates this theme throughout his short story, “The Veldt”. The tale revolves around a wealthy couple, George and Lydia Hadley, who are the parents of two children, Wendy and Peter. The guardians purchase a Happylife Home, a technological house that takes care of the family all on its own. In addition to this, the adolescents have their own room known as a nursery, which allows them to put whatever they imagine into real life. This room raises them and provides for them entirely, while the parents are distant and remote. The children develop a strong hatred toward…show more content… Their fear is peculiar because a house isn’t alive, but their home has developed into a lively subject that they’re apprehensive of. Also, the emphasis on “killing” the house hints that the house advocates a living thing, rather than an inhumane object. In fact, the adolescents feel that “this room is their mother and father, far more important in their lives than their real parents” (Bradbury). The guardians no longer have an occupation, and the house steps into the role-play of the children’s care-taker. Likewise, the adolescents have direct conversations with the house, as if it indicates a person, teaming up against their mother and father. When George exclaims that they are shutting off the nursery, Peter responds saying: “‘Don’t let them do it!’ wailed Peter at the ceiling, as if he was talking to the house, the nursery” (Bradbury). The house symbolizing a parental figure contributes into the conflict of the story because if the parents wouldn’t have let the house take over their job in the first place, the children wouldn't murder them in the end. An apparent conflict in the story expresses man versus self, because the guardians bring themselves to their own downfall by not fulfilling their duties and letting the technology take over. This also portrays a man versus man conflict, the adolescents versus the adults, because the…show more content… Bradbury utilizes the color yellow to establish that encountering the lions feels like “the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass.” (Bradbury). Typically, yellow symbolizes the colors of fire or a yellow heat. Additional connotations of yellow include cowardliness, which exhibits the parent’s fear of the children, and toxicity, which describes the dangerous and tensive atmosphere of Africa. The humidity symbolizes the adolescents’ deep and vivid fury. After the father left the nursery, the intensity of the sun was so hot that “he could feel it on his neck, still, like a hot paw.” (Bradbury). He senses the warmth consuming him, and it makes him feel guilty and fearful. Also, the reference to a hot paw brings in how the lions symbolize the children. The adolescents’ anger takes action through the lions because the children decide they want their parents to die, but the lions are what literally commit the act of killing. Lions also share the same tendencies of the adolescents throughout the story. The wild cats tend to slowly stalk their prey and then aggressively pounce to attack. The children act similarly, letting their anger build up over time until they take action and put a stop to it. Furthermore, the nursery “is yellow hot Africa, this bake oven with
