“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.
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.
When ominous opening monologues, special effects, unexpected-twist endings, The Twilight Zone captured the attention and imagination of America during the height of the Cold War and into the twenty-first century. One of the most famous episodes titled "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" was written by Rod Serling and it originally aired in 1960. In 2002, an updated version of the same story was shown under the title "The Monsters Are on Maple Street." Though aired more than 40 years apart, both stories convey the same fundamental theme depicted in slightly different ways. One distinct change is the radically different technology; in addition, the characters are modernized to reflect the twenty-first century; however, the story line itself and message are still the same.
Who Really Are the Monsters Due on Maple Street How can thoughts, suspicions, and prejudices turn mankind against itself. As all power ends, havoc breaks loose for residents. As rumors spread, and suspicion rises, neighbors begin to betray one another. In the screen play, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”, by Rod Serling, Serling claims that fear causes destruction of Maple Street though thoughts, prejudices, and attitudes.
Crane’s short story, The Monster, is about how Henry Johnson, the coachman, severely burns his body in the attempt to rescue the Dr. Trescott’s young son, but rather than receiving high acclaims within the town, he is ridiculed for his burnt face and disabilities. While Henry Johnson losing his face is quite a loss, the real loss is the mask every townspeople had prior to the house fire. When the townspeople lost their mask, it revealed the true face of how unkind they are towards those who look or act different than the social norm. Judge Hagenthrope speaks to Dr. Trescott in reference to Henry Johnson, “No one wants to advance such ideas, but somehow I think that that poor fellow ought to die,” revealing that some people within the town
The quote, “the tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.” stands for all of society. The quote means that prejudice can kill, meaning that people acting on prejudice can harm someone in an extreme way. Suspicion can destroy, meaning that when not acting on prejudice, can destroy someone else without actually doing something towards them. This could: emotionally, physically, and mentally destroy someone.
Rod Serling, by creating the episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, Serling is trying to show an aspect of history like McCarthyism. During the episode, a lot is going on and it causes the residents to lose their sanity. The problem starts off small, and soon the whole situation is flipped from being about a power outage to blaming each other about who caused it. Lastly, the end of the show is total chaos. Much like McCarthyism which is making accusations to transform the established social order and treason without regards to evidence, the show represents that in a way that’s subtle.
The 18th century Irish statesman Edmund Burke once wrote, “Fear is the parent of cruelty”. The Twilight Zone episode, “Monsters Due on Maple Street written by Rod Serling shows how true this statement is. A flash of light flashed across the sky above Maple Street , resulting in the electricity and telephone service to abruptly stop. They couldn’t even get their cars to start, The two main characters of this episode were Steve Brand and Charlie.
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.
Monsters? Would you be able to live in a time where your life was always in danger? Fear and danger were a constant feeling in Rod Serling’s video and teleplay “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” which was made in 1960 and “The Monsters on Maple Street” that was made in 2003. The 1960 version people were so easy to accuse others when fear and danger presented itself. In the 2003 version terrorism was on everyone’s mind
In Kelly Link's short story “Monster” it is based in North Carolina at a camp, but more specifically a group boys in Bungalow 4 and 6 who go out on a hike to camp at Honor lookout in tents. At the beginning Bungalow 6 went out on a hike and saw a monster and of course they came back to tell all of the other groups at camp. A big part of the story is about Bungalow 4 and how everyone in the group picks on this kid named James Lorbick who i guess you could say is not the coolest kid around. When Bungalow 4 goes on their hike it is not much of a true hike but they do find a big bone in the mud. When they set up to camp a kid named Brian starts picking on James.
Rhetorical Analysis of “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” Many people believe monsters are imaginary creatures that are seen in movies or even for others, it could be a serial killer that was heard about on the news. Stephen T. Asma wrote “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” which “first appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in October 2009” (Hoffman 61). Asma, who is a professor of philosophy, examines how different individual’s perceptions of a monster can be different depending on the era or even events happening around them. In “Monsters and the Moral Imagination,” Stephen T. Asma wrote a nonfiction, persuasive article for an educated and possibly specialized audience to examine how the idea of monsters have changed over time, what could be the motivation to create them, or even how life experiences could change an individual’s perceptions.
Close Passage Analysis Essay: Chronicle of a Death Foretold In the fiction novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez presents the unique narrative of an honor killing that occurs within a small Colombian town. Much of the novel revolves around the society’s commitment to Latin American culture, specifically the notions of machismo and marianismo, which emphasize certain virtues of masculinity and femininity respectively. In being so exceedingly devoted to their culture, the town becomes blinded to the evils that derive from striving to protect facets associated with Colombian society— and thus fall victim to said ills. Within the novel, the author often emphasizes the townspeople’s determination to preserve
Molly Childree Fleischbein EH 102.147 Draft February 5,2018 Our world is full of monsters, some imaginary, but most are legitimate and terrifying. In his text “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffery Jerome Cohen examines the use of monsters in literate and cinema. Cohen makes the claim that the use of monsters, historically and presently, in forms of entertainment symbolizes more than just the fear they instill in audiences. A monster is no longer just a monster.
