Like Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New
World, Ray Bradbury was concerned with the potential dangers of technology.
In his short story, "The Veldt" Bradbury presents a scenario in which technology
supersedes its creators. For, the psychologist friend David McClean tells George Hadley
that he has a bad feeling about the nursery:
One of the original uses of these nurseries was
so that we could study the patterns left on the walls by the child's mind, study at our
leisure, and help the child. In this case, however, the room has become a channel
toward--destructive thoughts, instead of a release away from
them."
Further, the
psychologist tells George that he has let the house replace him and his wife in the
children's affections. Thus, the room, the veldt, without the constraints of parents
and human civilization, has become a savage environment of a technology that is outside
the realm of human control.
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