Veja Hamilton
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        After reading Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt", our class watched a movie also called "The Veldt", that portrayed and reenacted several similarities to the book. In the short story, Peter and Wendy have become obsessed with this nursery that will show them and take them to anywhere they want to go. Lydia Hadley is frightened by the scene she discovers in the nursery, and asks her husband George to turn it off and lock it down for a few days. What frightens Lydia is all the violence she sees in Africa. There are lions that have just finished feeding and she also sees vultures feeding. And she says that it "feels too real." She pleads with george to turn off the entire house and says that they should take a vacation.
        Once George confronts the kids, Peter and Wendy become upset and Peter says "Dont let father kill everthing." and then he says "Oh I hate you!" and finally "I wish you were dead!" One of the gothic motifs that I thought fit this scenario was Revenge. It was revenge because Peter and Wendy are furious with their parents for taking away their nursery. So in the act of Revenge, they lock their parents in the nursery and they are unable to come out. And in the film, this same motif is apparent in the scene when George and Lydia Hadley enter the nursery because of the cries Lydia hears. But they soon discover that it was a trap and they cannot escape because the door only grants access to the children. As the parents are trapped in the nursery, we soon find out that they are killed by the lions and this is the act of revenge set up by the kids in order for them to keep the nursery.


Bradbury, Ray. "The Veldt." American Gothic Tales. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Plume, 1996.
264-77. Print.