LITERATURE QUESTIONS
DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
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The Hadley’s HappyLife Home, sometime in the future.
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A technological nursery, present day.
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The Hadley’s HappyLife Home, 2054 AD
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story takes place in two different settings: a Happylife Home sometime in the future and the African veldt of the nursery. The Happylife Home symbolizes human beings in their most technologically advanced and civilized state.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Happylife Home symbolizes a new consumerist society in which all of our needs and desires are instantly met, and all of our daily tasks become automated.
Detailed explanation-3: -HappyLife Homes, LLC is in San Diego, CA.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “The Veldt, ” the purpose of the setting is to drive the story’s conflict. The story is set in the Hadley family’s “Happylife Home, ” with much of the action centered on the children’s nursery.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Veldt was written in 1950 by the American writer, Ray Bradbury in the era that the United States was experiencing significant economic, technological and social changes. The American economy experienced a golden age during 1950’s.