Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

In life and literature, people make decisions in their lives. Other people may make an entirely different decision when faced with certain situations. Some individuals make thoughtful decisions that make their life better for the long term. However, others make less thoughtful decisions that come to harm them in the future. Peter and Wendy are two characters in Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Veldt” that make inconsiderate decisions. Peter and Wendy make the decision to kill their parents when the nursery is endangered.

George and Lydia made the decision to give up their parental responsibility. George and Lydia made the decision to have Peter and Wendy raised in a technologically advanced home. Their mother rethought about the decision …show more content…
The majority of the times, the children decide to express evil thoughts in the nursery. When George and Lydia are about, Peter and Wendy decide to hide their savagery from their parents by changing the playroom to a magical wonderland. The children pick the playroom to be a harsh and cruel reality, which reflects their savage personalities. Once the Veldt is threatened, the children decide to oppose their parents. For Peter and Wendy, their rebellion is necessary to protect the nursery. In George and Lydia’s view, the children’s acts seem cruel, causing the parents to decide on closing the …show more content…
Lydia stated: “The house is wife and mother now and nursemaid”, particularly the Veldt. The parents prefer to have a playroom as a magical place, such as “Jack the Pumpkinhead of Oz” and others as well as obedient children. Discovering their children created the opposite of a wonderland in the nursery made George and Lydia decide that Peter and Wendy have become disobedient children. George question’s: “Is this our reward-secrecy and disobedience?” The details of the terrible landscape they created were “too real”; too much death for the parents’ liking. When George was notified about the children’s deep hate for himself and his wife from Peter yelling; “Oh, I hate you”; he decided that Peter and Wendy’s were monsters. The parents decided the children were spoiled individuals that did not know anything about appreciation, Peter saying: “I wish you were dead!” The first time the parents were inside the Veldt with the lions, led the parents to feel strongly about their outlook on the amount of time the children spent in the nursery and their decision of closing the nursery. To Peter and Wendy, the playroom was a place that could be manipulated and explored. When George and Lydia endanger the nursery, the children pick to defend nursery. In contrast to the parents’ decision on what to become of the Veldt, Peter and Wendy want to protect, much more keep the