Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Xenophobia On "Maple Street?"
How does The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
address the concept of xenophobia? What alarms you regarding the
inhabitants actions and attitudes? How does this episode align or differ
with stories we have already read? Other thoughts? Please respond by
2:30p.m. on Wed., February 18th, 2015.
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This film demonstrated the concept of xenophobia to an extreme. Fear of aliens turned into fear of humans that knew each other and where friendly. This film is different from puppet show because the humans were civilized when they encountered aliens while in the film the inhabitants had no encounter and still where terrified. I found it appopuling when the town blamed the child who suggested that they were under attack. This moment stood out from all the rest because no extraterrestrial events actually happened every occurrence could be explained. However the neighbors became so frightened they exaggerated the entire situation to a nightmarish proportions.
ReplyDelete"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" addresses the concept of xenophobia by displaying what could happen to a normal community when they suspect their neighbors may be a threat. The inhabitants' speed at which they jump to conclusions and resort to violence alarms me the most. This episode aligns with "Muse" because the community feels threatened by alien influence and reacts violently. It also aligns with "The Puppet Show" in that the aliens used remote means to manipulate humans into revealing their xenophobia. However both of the stories differ from the episode in that they display more friendly aliens. How could people come to overcome their xenophobia?
ReplyDeleteIn the Twilight Zone, the people in the town ket the littlest things like light and cars turning on and off control them and make them go insane to where they just started killing each other. It demonstrated the concept of xenophobia pretty well.
ReplyDelete“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” describes a real life example of xenophobia. Xenophobia is the fear of the unknown, and in this episode all of the people on Maple Street start panicking and thinking that there is someone on this street that is not fully “human”. In other words, they are afraid. They start accusing one another about random things happening on their street, and then all hell breaks loose. People do not know how to deal with fear, because it takes over their minds and plants more unanswered questions in it.
ReplyDelete“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is a movie that shows xenophobia at an extreme level. It can also be toned down to life as it is in the present though as well. Xenophobia is best defined as the fear of the unknown, when the people of the town hear all of the sounds in the sky, the xenophobia comes out. The way the people of the town turned on each other was a great example because they didn't know what the sound was therefore causing fear of the unknown. Maple Street was a great movie that demonstrated xenophobia very well.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia can clearly be found in "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" The residents of maple street has complete fear from possible "Invaders from space" accusing neighbors and friends to try and find a reason or excuse for the strange things happening. In reality, they are tearing themselves apart for no reason when the martians are revealed to observe the neighbors from a distance. Xenophobia causes for a explantaion for something unexplainable, no matter how crazy it may seem/
ReplyDeleteThe film "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" shows xenophobia in the ways of how the characters immediately started to go against each other. They also first blamed the person who had something unusual happen to their house, not stopping to think about what would cause it. They went with the kids story of aliens without a second thought.
ReplyDelete"The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" addresses xenophobia from a different perspective then how most people would. It shows how people aren't really scared of just aliens, but they're scared of the unknown. When people are faced with something they're unsure of,they turn on each other and become hostile. The people of Maple Street soon assume that people they've known and trusted for a long time are not who they say they are when things began to get weird. They're scared of what they don't know so they turn on each other. They're all very willing to throw someone to protect themselves, their pride, and their sanity.
ReplyDelete"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" addresses a part of xenophobia that is generally ignored. Rather than the generic use of aliens coming and us freaking out from what we don't know, the aliens in the episode use their knowledge of us to get into the human psyche and use our xenophobia against us. They rot the roots of the people in the town in order to cause destruction without getting directly involved, which differs a lot from most other xenophobia based science fiction stories. It had a unique view on what could happen, that is possibly more realistic.
ReplyDeletethe monsters are due on maple street is a good display of xenophobia because in this breif segment, the belief that there are aliens amoung them turns them from best freinds into horrid monstrous versions of themselfs. they think they all are each others nightmareish version of an alien. in short, the display of xenophobia is a display we see around the world, with racism, hatered and fear of the unknown by many many coutries.
ReplyDelete"The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" is a frightening story representing how people can easily turn against their allies in a dangerous situation. Once one person has the idea that monsters or aliens may be behind the power outage on Maple Street, everyone starts throwing each other under the bus to avoid being focused on themselves. This is something that is far scarier than any story involving killers or vampires. When the human race can turn against itself so easily, their is no guarantee that we will truly make progress in the world.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia in this film i believe is show in a very different way than we have seen prior to this film. In this it shows it in a more decreat way but also it portrays the actions of the civilians in the way where it goes from good in the town to all out chaos in the blink of an eye. Now it also dosent show the cause of this till the end so it almost ends like a plot twist into why everyone was acting like they were.
ReplyDeleteMonster's are due on Maple Street' shows us a real life example of what Xenophobia is which is the fears of the unknown and change towards which people are not adjusted. and in this episode of the Twilight Zone the people on the street of Maple street fear that somebody might be an alien when really the aliens are atop the hill to which Maple street is in view messing with the humans watching as they tear their trust and friendship apart.
ReplyDeleteThe Monsters Are Due On Maple Street address the concept of xenophobia when angry mobs questions why one person has a working car, power in the house, and look at the sky in the middle of the night. It alarms me that your own neighbor would be willing to attack you. This episode align with stories we have already read because they all show fear to something foreign.
ReplyDeleteMonsters due on maple street has the idea/concept of xenophobia because the way the reacted to when the power went out they where still calm but when one person car turned on that's when they turned against each other i think its nerver racking because i feel if this was to happen in real life maybe on a bigger scale like the power of one state turns off i could see people truning on each other
ReplyDeleteXenophobia can be handled a number of different ways. It is not easy, or, some would argue, impossible for people to completely ignore the fact that something is different than them. On Maple Street, the fear of aliens drives the people living in this neighborhood into complete insanity. At the end of the episode, the viewer is shown aliens that are controlling Maple Street, and letting them destroy each other. So far, the stories we have read each have had aliens that are not destructive or aggressive. I thought that it was extremely interesting that there was not one person that could calmly and evenly explain to everyone that they are going insane and that there is no real proof of any of them being aliens.
ReplyDeleteThe citizens of this block are finding scape goats for the problems on the street. They end up killing a man who had news from the other street because of there lack of rationalization cause by mob mentality. They are so busy looking for someone to blame they don't realize that there is an outside provocateur playing them against each other.
ReplyDeleteThe people on Maple street are excellent examples of xenophobia because the first thing they do is start blaming people and really trying to find scapegoats for the strange things going on. This fear drives them to fear one another even though they have no real reason to.
ReplyDeleteThis is the biggest reason I try not to get involved with anyone, because everyone just does what ever it takes to help their own selves and believe anything even with no logical backing as long as it creates drama.
ReplyDeleteXenophobia can clearly be found in "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" and it shows this because everyone was trying to figure everything out and if they were to calm down and not worry so much they could figure it out more.
ReplyDeleteIn The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, the aliens use a completely different tactic in causing chaos that in normal science fiction books and movies. The aliens use the idea of xenophobia and turn the humans against each other, making the humans fear themselves and ultimately tearing their own kind apart. This fear of each other was also represented in the Star Trek video we saw where the Captain and Spock didn’t know what would happen to the human race if they went back in time and changed the future. Ultimately, they feared themselves.
ReplyDeleteIn The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, the aliens use a completely different tactic in causing chaos that in normal science fiction books and movies. The aliens use the idea of xenophobia and turn the humans against each other, making the humans fear themselves and ultimately tearing their own kind apart. This fear of each other was also represented in the Star Trek video we saw where the Captain and Spock didn’t know what would happen to the human race if they went back in time and changed the future. Ultimately, they feared themselves.
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ReplyDeleteIn The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, the aliens use a completely different tactic in causing chaos that in normal science fiction books and movies. The aliens use the idea of xenophobia and turn the humans against each other, making the humans fear themselves and ultimately tearing their own kind apart. This fear of each other was also represented in the Star Trek video we saw where the Captain and Spock didn’t know what would happen to the human race if they went back in time and changed the future. Ultimately, they feared themselves.
ReplyDeleteIn The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, the aliens use a completely different tactic in causing chaos that in normal science fiction books and movies. The aliens use the idea of xenophobia and turn the humans against each other, making the humans fear themselves and ultimately tearing their own kind apart. This fear of each other was also represented in the Star Trek video we saw where the Captain and Spock didn’t know what would happen to the human race if they went back in time and changed the future. Ultimately, they feared themselves.
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