“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” Zoom! The meteor flew over head. On Maple Street it is calm. Kids are playing, cars are being worked on and wives are in the house. The sound of an ice cream truck selling ice cream.
“The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” by Rod Serling criticize the people of Maple Street. The teleplay (as we will call “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”) criticizes the people of Maple Street by saying, “(People shout, accuse, and scream as the lights go on and off. Then, slowly, in the middle of this nightmarish confusion of sight and sound,)” This shows that they are chaotic people at the end of the teleplay. (Remember?
Missteps in the Evaluation of Circumstances Redefined Shown through history, the common general public will often heedlessly denounce another of guilt from erroneous assumptions in times of fear. Like no other day, life on Maple Street went on composedly until a power outage arose, and all electronic devices, inclusive of lawnmowers, cars, radios, and phones, failed to operate. Commotion of the neighbors began as Tommy, a somewhat peculiar fourteen-year-old inspired by comic books and movies, interpreted that aliens were accountable for the malfunctions of technology. On the spur of the moment, Les Goodman’s car started involuntarily; Don and Charlie proceeded to accuse him of being a foreign being.
At the end of the episode, “ The Monsters are Due on Maple Street’’, Rod Sterling says a well-known quote at the end of the episode which meant that even with weapons such as bombs, explosions, and even fallouts the human mind is even more dangerous than those weapons. Even simply our thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices can be harmful as any weapon but they can also lead people to destruction and madness. Overall we can conquer without the need for any human-made weapons we simply can just use our thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices. A real life experience that can be related to this well known quote were the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials were a series of prosecution of people being blamed for doing witchcraft.
Monsters due on maple street. Olivia Warren 7 2/10/23 A man murders his friend in this teleplay. The power goes out on maple street, a little boy named Tommy, told everyone about a “monster” so everyone got scared and no one trusted each other. Fear can cause many things including violence and overreacting.
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street There was a teleplay called “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” It was about a group of neighbors who were so paranoid and frightened because they thought aliens were living amongst them. The play is unrealistic because Les Goodman’s car starts by itself and car don’t do that, aliens aren’t real, and Steve was accused of talking to aliens using his ham radio. A boy named Tommy was the one who started this.
The residents of Maple Street turn on each other, searching for someone to blame for the power outage, instead of working together to find a solution. This behavior only exacerbates the situation and causes further harm, underlining the dangers of looking for a scapegoat in times of uncertainty and fear. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street effectively illustrates the destructive nature of fear and the importance of rational thinking and
Sometimes, human beings can become murderers or monsters to each other when driven by their inner feelings. In the play "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," a normal neighborhood in the USA, we can see how suspicion among the residents leads to cruelty toward one another. It starts with a resident's car starting up without him there, and suspicion rises to the point where people start yelling, throwing things, and even shooting. Through suspicion, blame, and violence, we can see how human beings can act irrationally and self-destruct when they are driven by fear or panic.
Fear is a natural emotion that could result in other unnatural behavior. Many people experience fear, while fear is not such a happy or joyful feeling but it will occur every now and then and you can only control yourself and your reactions. The teleplay effectively shows how human nature and fear can destroy itself by causing crazy accusations, suspicion, and overreactions. Fear can cause people to make crazy accusations and propose unrealistic theory’s. In the teleplay, The Neighbors Are Due on Maple Street were scared of the “meteor” or “spaceship” that flew across the sky, the neighbors started making up crazy theories.
A Portrayal on Accidental Monsters In many folklore and legends, there are tellings of monsters. These monsters serve important roles to show what the culture, and its society is made of. When looking at monster it can be said that there are two different types : accidental and intentional. Different examples, such as, the Golem of Prague, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, Beowulf, by Seamus Heaney, and the Tempest, by William Shakespeare, are examples of being an accidental monsters.
Rod Sterling's horror teleplay, Monsters are Due on Maple Street perfectly illustrates how fear can turn people into monsters. At the start of the play, a screeching sound and a flash of light descend from the sky. Maple Street is filled with terror and fear as a result of this. The group becomes irrational when they adjust their views to fit others' views (mob mentality), finding scapegoats everywhere they look.
It bleeds throughout the city and poisons whatever it can curl its talons around. The beast has found an unexpected home in the unassuming state of Nebraska; this terrible creature being violence. The news hardly goes a week without reporting about some shooting here or a bulgury over there. The violence has become such an uncontrollable problem that it touches even those far from the areas considered dangerous. I have lived my entire life in a wealthy suburb on the outskirts of Omaha, but not even I can escape from this sickness that rages across the state.
The works of Dittmann and Golding imply that people will be more violent in a survival situations that are difficult to exit because they provide the person with an ideology to justify their actions so that they will not be held accountable. In the article “What makes good people do bad things?” the author states that situations can foster evil by “Providing people with an ideology to justify beliefs for actions”(Dittmann) and by making “exiting the situation difficult”(Dittmann). Golding examines these points in his novel through his character Jack, one of the older boys who fills a
Violence can provoke an individual to be easily manipulated and become evil or uncivilized. For example, “Other problems include high levels of youth unemployment in the Muslim community, the availability of arms and a highly developed communications and transportation network in Belgium” (Burke 2). Because of the low youth unemployment, Belgium is a main target for Muslim terrorists. European countries due to violence against them and inequality bombed Belgium several times because of the corruption of Belgium. As well as in Lord of the Flies the boys killed an innocent because of that fear of the “beast” on the island (Golding 153).
Esbensin, Peterson, Taylor and Freng (2010) implies that “ young people who have committed serious violent offenses have the highest level of impulsive and risk-seeking tendencies.” Moreover, extreme violent criminal activity being performed in front of youth increases the risk of them performing acts of extreme violence themselves. Because youth see those acts as acceptable so committng those violent activities make youths to become ruthless. Smith and Green (2007) assert that violent activities becoming ruthless and the perpetrators even more ruthless.
