The Veldt: The Negative Effects Of Technological Control On Children

In an era of innovation, technology is advancing faster than ever, and it has many effects. From that, there are some good outcomes, but many negative and maybe fatal outcomes. In “The Veldt” technological control was greatly demonstrated as it shows the house taking over and results in the complete destruction of the family. Three very obvious impacts technology had in the family were the children’s homicidal tendencies being born, the parents were doubting themselves, and at last the parents’ death is inevitable.
In “The Veldt”, as the house’s technological values showed more and more, the house was almost taking the parents’ roles. “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt? Can I give a bath
The children developed homicidal thinking ways that later were the end of many things. “I wish you were dead!” (P 229) The children were showing how critical the technology was to them and how they threatened their own father to not turn off the nursery and as he is going to do it they are preparing for harm. Also here the children completely forgot that this person is their father. It is almost like the nursery and the technology brainwashed them. As the children forgot their father the children started imaging their parents' death in hot Africa were the killer lions laid. “But now, is yellow hot Africa, this bake oven with murder in the heat.” (P 124) How the nursery looks and the vicious environment it is showing just simply shows how the children turned from the kids who think about Alice in Wonderland to children who think about killer animals and blood. This meant that due to the technology in the nursery and it's realistic the children became maniac thinking
From the homicidal thinking of the children, death was an inevitable act waiting for it to happen. “They ran into the nursery. “The Veldt” land was empty save for the lions waiting, looking at them. “Peter, Wendy?” The door slammed.” (P 246) The parents were lowered into the nursery with their kids setting up their own death. At the end of the parents’ life, the technology of this house resulted in their children not accepting the decline of their tech even if they had to kill their parents. Unfortunately, these children did not see Mr. and Mrs. Hadley as their parents, they just saw them as walls that blocked them from their technology meaning that they had to tear it down. “Mr. and Mrs. Hadley screamed. And suddenly they realized why those other screams had sounded familiar.” (P 257) The parents’ were locked in the nursery by their children and they were on the verge of death. In the room hearing the screams it turns that it was their screams all along meaning that the children were imaging the death of their parents and now it was coming to life. In the last few moments of their life they knew that applying all this technology in their lives and making it very easy to reach was the worst decision they have ever taken. What was supposed to make their lives easier manipulated their children to kill them? At last, the death of someone was inevitable and it was the