Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” response

Ray Bradbury seems to have a vendetta against technology in his writings “The Veldt” and “There Will Come Soft Rains.” In these writings, he depicts utopian type worlds where houses are designed to do every minimal and some major tasks that a person would typically do throughout a day. These tasks include making meals, cleaning, washing, and more. In both stories, Bradbury has nurseries that become whatever the child wants it to be. He draws parallels with these nurseries as areas of wonder and simulation world type rooms. I found it interesting that both nurseries included lions in their simulation worlds. I do wonder if this is some kind of symbolization or a coincidence in Bradbury’s work. In “The Veldt”, the lions had represented the children’s hatred towards their parents. They had constantly thought of the safari world with the lions and imagined their parents torture. The lions were a gateway technology used as power to have over their parents, since the whole story was a power struggle between the parents and their children. The technology had raised the children, and it came back to bite the parents in the butt (literally). In “There Will Come Soft Rains”, there wasn’t very much mention of the lions; however, it could have been brought up as a symbolization of the power of technology. After everything else was gone, technology was able to go on like nothing had happened to the living. If anything, I found both of these stories to be quite terrifying tales of technology. I particularly didn’t like the dog dying and being carried away by metal mice to be burned in the furnace. :)

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