"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury VS "The Veldt" By DEADMAU5
“The Veldt” by DEADMAU5 plays
off the same storyline and the same theme as “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury. In
the song it shows what the children are seeing and feeling. In addition, this
song allows the audience to see how dependant they are on technology that they
have replaced their parents with machines
“Every night they rock us to
sleep, digital family!”
Both stories show how technology is very misleading and can
make you believe in the “machines” rather than reality. “The Veldt” By DEADMAU5
portrays technology as deceptive because it takes them away from reality and
makes them think that the machines are looking out for them when in reality its what
“machines” are programmed
to do. “Happy life with the machines scattered
around the room.
Look
what they made; they made it for me”
“The Veldt”
by Ray Bradbury shows the story in the parent’s point of view and it also
supports the idea that the kids have become so attached to technology it has
caused them to be desensitized. The parents are very unaware at how attached
the kids have become to the technology. The mother Lidya starts to feel like
the technology in the house is taking her place because the house is starting
to act as “ wife and mother now, and nursemaid” and she starts to question
weather or not she “ can compete with an African veldt” .At the time that the
parents decided to “unplug the house” it was to late.
