Ray Bradbury's ¨The Veldt” illustrates the parallels between emotional appeal in “The Veldt” and in advertising.

In ¨The Veldt” the children develop a relationship with the nursery and makes them irrational through emotional appeal. The nursery in "The Veldt" is a very large room that displays interactive, immersive computer simulations that respond to and reflect the thoughts of the participants. But when the parents realize their children are developing a dangerous relationship with the room they turn off the room. The children's response is not pretty.

“ The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture. “ You can’t do that to the nursery, you can’t!” ( Bradbury 150)“ By looking at the way the children react to the nursery being taken away you can see their attachment to the nursery. If the children are in hysterics about a virtual reality room then what sort of emotional attachment must they place upon it? Emotional appeal can relate to the most primal instincts in our brain, especially needing a parent which is what the nursery does for the children. When the parents leave an emotional void by not parenting their children it is filled by the nursery. The emotions that the nursery produce for the kids make them act crazy when it is threatened. …show more content…
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