Story Basics
This is the name of the short story written by Ray Bradbury.
What is The Veldt?
These are the two Hadley children.
Who are Peter and Wendy?
This critical theory examines ideas such as class, wealth, labour, power, and inequality.
What is Marxist/Conflict Theory?
The Hadleys have lots of this, allowing them to afford the Happylife Home.
What is wealth?
This is the author of The Veldt.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This is the name of the futuristic automated house where the Hadley family lives.
What is the Happylife Home?
These are the parents of Peter and Wendy.
Who are George and Lydia Hadley?
This Marxist term describes becoming separated from a meaningful role, activity, or sense of purpose.
What is alienation?
The children become extremely dependent on this part of the house.
What is the nursery?
Bradbury wrote The Veldt around this year.
What is 1950?
This room can create realistic environments based on the children’s thoughts.
What is the nursery?
This character is the psychologist called to examine the nursery.
Who is David McClean?
This social class generally refers to people who possess wealth and control economic resources.
What is the bourgeoisie?
Lydia saying, “I feel like I don’t belong here,” connects most directly to this Marxist concept.
What is alienation?
During this period, new household appliances and consumer technology were becoming increasingly common.
What are the 1950s/postwar period?
This African environment repeatedly appears inside the nursery.
What is the veldt?
This character feels that the Happylife Home has replaced her role in the family.
Who is Lydia?
This social class traditionally refers to the working class.
What is the proletariat?
Although George owns the house, he gradually loses this over both the technology and his children.
What is control/power?
Bradbury exaggerates new technology in the story partly to warn about becoming too ______ on it.
What is dependent?
At the end of the story, these animals attack George and Lydia.
What are lions?
This character tries to shut down the nursery and eventually the whole house.
Who is George?
Marxist critics often question whether a text supports or challenges this accepted social system or way of thinking.
What is the norm?
Bradbury challenges the idea that having more wealth, technology, and convenience will automatically produce this.
What is happiness/freedom?
The fact that a house called “Happylife” contributes to the family’s destruction is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?