We are informed about a particular person’s point of view and their idea soaks up into our brain. Just like in real life situations, propaganda occurs in the media. Everyone is following everybody else’s opinion, and they are all being biased. This episode conveys propaganda to the audience. Since she made a comment that didn’t have supported evidence, she dug Les Goodman into a hole, making people think he is an alien because everyone starts to believe her. The woman was being the real monster to society because she had no idea what she was talking about and jumps to conclusion about Les Goodman. Everyone in the neighborhood is now more aware of him, claiming that his family isn’t human, but aliens. Therefore Goodman becomes an immediate suspicion to all the neighbors. She thinks he is waiting for the aliens or something from outer space. Though he has no effect on the aliens, a woman claims that she has seen him look up at the sky late at night, as though he is waiting for something. In the neighborhood, some of the neighbors like Les Goodman are accused of being a suspect because his car randomly turned on, while everyone else’s didn’t start. Emotional pain is sometimes harder to endure than physical pain. I believe that words may not be able to physically hurt someone, but they can emotionally. The central theme that exists within the episode is that words are mankind’s reatest weapon. They cause concern and stress upon themselves because of what the media says. The media exaggerates how something “might” happen and society makes it a big deal before anything is really happening. Just like the media nowadays, mass paranoia affects everyone. The adults do not believe him at first, but then they begin to slowly and senselessly start blaming other people for being an alien because they are afraid. The power outage that happened in the comic book is also occurring in real life. Tommy compares the real life situation to a similar problem he read in a comic book about aliens taking over a town. A ruckus of mass paranoia occurs and everyone believes that everyone is an alien. Even though they had no proof or evidence, they used their words to blame the suspects. Neighbors would blame other neighbors for the outage because they believed that one person was an alien. The neighbors were very eager to figure out who and what was the cause of the power outage. This twilight zone episode reveals to us that the real monsters in society are ourselves. As the episode continues, the adults become paranoid and start to lose their minds. People were getting blamed for doing normal things such as insomnia, looking at stars, and experimenting on a radio, but then the neighbors would exaggerate and make it sound suspicious, strange and unusual. First the adults refuse to believe a child, but then they unconsciously start pointing fingers at who can and cannot be aliens. The people who live on Maple become very curious on what the meteor has done to the neighbors living on the street.Ī young boy named Tommy tells the adults that everything weird happening is because of the aliens from outer space, which he read about in a comic book. Unexpected and strange things start to happen like the electricity and cars turning off. In this episode, a loud shadow in the sky passes through Maple Street.
“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is an episode that informs society about the fear of prejudice and hysteria. Every episode ends with a shocking, unexpected twist.
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Twilight Zone The series Twilight Zone is a show that combines science fiction with society.