THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY
The family of George and Lydia hadley is a typical American family this is because most American families have two children, a perfect house, all the new technology and also live in happy home. However according to Bradbury technology can destroy a happy home a good example is when peter tells his dad “I wish you were dead”
Human beings have been turned to objects of slavery by the technology. There are many inventions in the past that is helping in our daily lives but the inventions seem to be ruining human beings relationship sand destroying the minds of the children. As technology develops through the course of time humanity relies more upon it. In the present world technology surrounds humanity across the world from the cars that take people from one place to the next, to the cellphones that people carry. In the past families lived technology free-life: waking up by the sounds of birds, communicating face to face and walking in order to travel. Today it is almost impossible to find a means of entertainment that doesn’t involve a coloured screen. Despite the advantages of technology it has created an inactive generation that can’t think for themselves.
In the 1950’s family dynamics in post war period of WWII embodied the relationship between children and their parents. The suburban family lifestyle in the community centered on conformity-family togetherness involved parents taking interest in their child’s life. The co-existence of Americans in the fifties perceived the relationship between the children and the adolescents to their parents as rebelling against parent authority. A distant relationship between the parents and children is in “The veldt” where the children’s self-refinance on technology replaced the absent role in the family. The relationship between the parents and the kids is not good despite brad not telling us whether the parents have been abusive or demonstrated neglect towards the children. Actually both parents seem to be affectionate to the children who seem to care more about the nursery and the automated home. The parents spent so little time with the children that they don’t know them and more and have no control over them at all. The parents are to be partly blamed because they did not spend enough time with the children so they did not know that they had changed completely. Children raised with no parental supervision will never submit to discipline. Lydia Hadley has largely given the tasks of raising their children to the heir electronic house and in particular the nursery.
As young children grow their attitude dramatically transforms. They translate from loving their parents to disliking them especially if their normal lifestyle is adversely affected Human innovation can lead to their ultimate downfall. George is a good and loving father who buys his kids wendy and peter all the new and best technology including a nursery where the children thoughts are projected onto the walls. The nursery which is supposed to help the children actually causes them to grow hatred towards the parents. The hatred grows until wendy and peter murder their parents, an act which reminds the ready that not everything will have the effect that was foreseen. The children feel hatred towards the parents because they feel their parents are invading in their privacy with the technology. They spend more time with the technology than with their parents and obey the technology more than they obey their parents. George tries for the kids to respect him but they don’t actually wendy respects peter more than the dad because they mostly work together. The use of foreshadow hints at the fact that sometimes the things that we think may help our lives actually have a negative impact.
The love for a machine can never be real as the love of another human being. The fact that the children have more affection towards the machines means that the relationship between them and any other human beings is not strong enough therefore they distance themselves from the rest of the world
There is so much tension in the family: it mostly begins with the parents this is because the parents worry about the growing secrecy and disobedience of the children and decide to invite a friend who is a psychologist to examine the children and the use they make of the nursery. According to David the veldt image reflects the children’s hostility towards the parents. When we give our children everything they ever wanted is the reward secrecy and disobedience. When George turns off the nursery and the rest of the house, the children throw an elaborate tantrum in which peter implores the new disconnected machinery to let his father kill the house
Ray Bradbury has written a variety of short stories and novels and most of his work is fiction in this short story he warns people against becoming too dependent on science and technology at the expense of moral and aesthetic support. His position against technology stands not only in present in his literary works but also in lifestyle. The millennial with advanced technology create stress and frustration in everyday lifestyle. This frustration and stress is a race between humans and technology if we fail to keep up to date with the computer age we will be called out of date human. The technology has really bad effect on the families, imagine having so much technology that your kids start to think of it as their mother and father.
Bradbury also shows the consequences of the overuse of the technology on individuals. Lydia Hadley is the first of the two parents to point out the screams that are heard on the distance where the lions are. George dismisses them when he says he did not hear them. After George locks the nursery and everyone is supposed to be in bed, the screams are heard again insinuating that the children have broken into the nursery, but this time both the parents her them.
Little things are mentioned that foreshadow what is about to happen. The screams are one of the major things. When George enters the nursery after wendy and finds that it is now a forest full of color, there is an instant of doubt that maybe there never was any Africa or lions after all. George proves the suspicion wrong once he picked up something that lay in the corner near where the lions had been.
If individuals are not careful, technology and will eventually take over mankind he dives into the theme “The Vedlt” begins to introduce the Hadley’s and their happy life, home nursery, this house which clothed, fed and rocked them to sleep. However the Hadley’s soon began to fear their nursery, as it resembled and African veldt of blazing sun and ferocious lion. Their fear heightens when George Hadley finds his old wallet n the nursery with teeth and blood stains. They consult psychologist David McCleanand decide to shut the nursery down but become tempted to turn the machine back on and they pay soon pay for the descions o their lives the power of the nursery is exemplified throughout the story and its focus is a product of the story’s historical context.
Metamorphosisare examples of how Americans take advantage of the little things in life. In today’s society people don’t realize how easy they have it and will never fully understand the meaning of hard work. The children in “The Veldt” are disrespectful towards their family due to their disconnection to reality and abandonment from their parents. “Metamorphosis” displays how the parents take advantage of their son and all the work he does for them the story displays lack of respect and abandonment towards their family members in taking advantage of them or under appreciating them due to oblivious to their surroundings.
Work cited.
Caldwell Tracy M “The negative effects of parent and child conflict”
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