Theme Of The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

The theme of the science fiction teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” by Rod Serling is fear. The teleplay “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” also reveals that when people are afraid they tend to act irrationally.
For instance after Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn everybody starts to blame him, call him the monster, and so he runs away before anything could get worse and because he does so they start to chase him. “A man breaks away from the crowd to chase Charlie. As the man tackles him and lands on top of him. The other people start to run toward them. Charlie is up on his feet, breaks away from the other man's grasp, lands a couple of desperate punches that push the man aside. Then he forces his way, fighting through the crowd to once again break free, jumps up on his front porch. On the front porch as a rock thrown from the group smashes a window alongside of him, the broken glass flying past him. A couple of pieces cutting him.” Now we can obviously see how the people started to act irrationally. I mean they are afraid of the monster and who it could be and so when Charlie shot Pete Van Horn everybody started to blame Charlie, and then they started to throw rocks at him. But in a situation where they are not afraid and Charlie still ended

“Wait a minute now. You keep your distance - all of you. So I've got a car that starts by itself - well that's a freak thing, I admit it. But does that make me some kind of criminal or something? I don't know why the car works - it just does!” Okay so right here in this little piece of dialogue that we see here, you can see how scared Les Goodman is. Another thing is that Les Goodman is obviously afraid of what could foreshadow. You can see this when he tells the people to keep their distance from him, but at the same time you can see he is as afraid as they