![]() ![]() Start your subscription to get access to more than 30,000 additional guides and more than 350,000 Homework Help questions answered by our experts. Ray Bradbury’s classic short story ‘The Veldt’ (1952) is about a nursery in an automated home in which a simulation of the African veldt is conjured by some children. So, with the children’s names, the magical world and the “nursery,” Bradbury is obviously create a connection with the archetypes created in Peter Pan. In fact, the parents desire to take out the nursery suggests a desire to make them grow up and spend time in the adult world. ![]() The house cooks, cleans, and takes care of everything you could need. These ideas are clearly present in “The Veldt” as Peter and Wendy rebel against their parents, who want to take away their magical world that occurs within the nursery. She begins to feel unneeded as the house is the mother, the father, and the nursemaid. The Story takes place in a happy home that cost 30,000. ![]() The Peter Pan archetype focuses on the child’s refusal to grow up and the vilifying of adults. And the magical world created in the magical screen recalls Neverland. Thus, the door that separates the two settings from one another. On the veldt, laws and moral codes are irrelevant. There is no sign of human life anywhere, and anyone standing before the veldt is vulnerable to the sensory effects of the wilderness, and ultimately the immediacy of its dangers. In fact, the use of the term “nursery” recalls the nursery in the J.M. It is nature at its most raw, real, and dangerous. ![]() The Peter Pan archetype is obviously used and it’s made obvious by the use of the children’s names Peter and Wendy. ![]()
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