Thursday, February 14, 2019
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 3:40p.m. on Wed., Feb. 20th, 2019.
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The people don't believe in the kid just because it is something different that they wouldn't think about. Just as something weird happens they go to what is different then them. In the story people through the stick man was a monster, but he wasn't anything. In the show there is a guy that people think is an alien.
ReplyDeleteWhen the story begins everyone is happy and living their normal lives, then the power goes out for all appliances, The child who witnessed the alien ship pass by overhead says they don't want the people to leave. The entire time the civilians neglected the existence of the aliens and the mysterious coincidences they experience. Then they believe the boy when a random car starts and they start to go after the owner of the car in a mob like fashion. The concept of xenophobia is represented in full as the civilians have fear that there are aliens amongst them and having fear towards the man who is believed to be an alien. I am shocked as they show how the way they treat the man as a suspect and are extremely suspicious of him. This aligns with the puppet show as how people were cautious of the alien at first. It also relates as how in puppet show the alien said there were human like aliens amongst the normal humans in the story while there was the theme as an alien amongst the people of maple street.
ReplyDeleteWhen aliens were brought up in the episode, the people in the town began turning on each other and being afraid. I wouldn’t say anything alarms me, but it is interesting how the people react and change how they look at people that they have known for a long time. This story is similar to stories we have read, because of the reactions of the people once an alien is brought into a conversation.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was interesting how quick to turn on each other the people were. Many people would say they would never turn on their neighbors, but in the face of fear most people would. In the face of an unknown dangerous force almost everyone would be thinking about only their own safety. Everyone is quite civilized on the outside, but when people are in fear they become instinctual and primitive.
ReplyDeleteTh episode really shows how people can turn on one another the second they get scared and they resort to their primal instincts. The people bully each other for weird things that they do an jump to wild conclusions about why they do it. It also shows the real nature of what people are like when they're scared.
ReplyDeleteWhen the thought of Aliens living on the street the people began to think that everyone that does something weird they are guilty of being an alien. This is very diffrent then the stick man because the did not over react at afraid of foreign people.
ReplyDeleteI was absent on Friday, but I have learned that The Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street addresses the absurdity and implications of xenophobia. After the power goes out, the residents of the neighborhood turn on each other which results in extreme violence and murder. In other stories we have read, people have a similar response to the unknown: one of terror.
ReplyDeleteThe episode adresses the concept of xenophobia by showing how irrational assumptions can lead to chaos.
ReplyDeleteThis addresses xenophobia because it shows that these characters were scared of the "unknown" and it shows the attitude towards other people/creatures.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone addresses xenophobia by the people not knowing what is going on and the things that they understand is taken away from them. The whole neighborhood turned against each other even though they all lived with each other for a long time.
ReplyDeleteThe people on Maple Street aren't very adaptable to unusual situations. Humans tend to solve problems by making up the answers when they can't find any. I think they need to group together in a good way, not a violent one. Lack of patience and lack of answers put together is a recipe for trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone shows how a fear of the unknown can cause a mad panic. It's alarming that people are willing to kill without question or even blame a kid for something unknown. This kind of aligns with The Forbidden Planet, in that the people exploring the planet blamed the doctor for killing the captain and some other things.
ReplyDeleteThe Monsters Are Due on Maple Street illustrates the ludicrous nature of xenophobia when viewed in a vacuum. The viewer sits atop the hill above the street with the aliens, utterly confused by how easy it is to incite discord and violence between a seemingly tight knit community. The xenophobia that american culture participated in the time seems ridiculous when viewed historically today. However, humanity can frequently fall victim to this madness when its our lives, our peace threatened by the unknown.
ReplyDeleteI feel that this episode clearly shows the idea of xenophobia. When they get the idea that there might be an alien among them, they all immediate start turning on each other. The claims the make are not true, and they are made out of fear. Fear is something that will push us to extreme lengths.It pushes them so far that they end up destroying each other. Fear is the major factor in the idea of xenophobia, and this show shows it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThis exhibits xenophobia through people alienating other humans by their actions. It's alarming to see them pick themselves apart so quickly because they lost power. If someone could dismantle America as simply as this, it's just scary.
ReplyDeleteAfter watching The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, the people in this episode exhibit the idea that humans naturally want to gravitate in a group. And because of this, they often gravitate against the outliers of the group or people who aren’t in the group, because those are the people who “threaten” the group. This shows a fatal flaw that these people have. Like the operator said at the end, the townspeople chose to exclude and ostracize one of their own, instead of working together to try and solve what seems to be a bigger problem.
ReplyDeleteThis shows xenophobia because all of the characters were scared of what they did not know. All they knew that some sort of alien or unknown things has invaded into their neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI was absent last Friday, but based on what I've watched the idea of Xenophobia has been taken to the extreme. Everyone who seems slightly suspicious in their disturbed society is being accused of being a monster or having something to do with the strange occurances. It reminds me a lot about the witch trials in Salem. There was really nothing going on with the originally accused women, but once the people of Salem got this idea that something evil causing sickness accusations ran wild. Everyone was blaming someone else to save themselves, scapegoating, like Charlie did in this episode of The Twilight Zone. Unexpected events caused these people to act with no rationale and they became tools of conquest. From the outside it seems extremely absurd, but humans are naturally hesitant about outlandish experiences or people.
ReplyDeleteWhen all the people are told one thing then they are all forced to act a certain way towards certain people. The people are made to think one way. All of the propaganda was created to try and make people be scared of people that began to act weird. This is to strike fear in to people about a certain group or race of people also know as Xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThis show brings up a perfect example of xenophobia. It all started when a simple thing happens, a power outage, and someone brings up a crazy idea. The fact that just the simple saying that its due to aliens made everyone go crazy and that was driven by fear. They ended up killing an innocent man because of simple things such as the lights turning off or a man staring at the sky. It just goes to show that people are so scared of unknown things that they would go to this extent and at this point they didn't have any knowledge that these aliens would be harmful but went the the extremes anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe Twilight Zone Episode: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street address the concept of Xenophobia because when the neighborhood had thought that there was an alien among them, they began to freak out. Specific scene’s that alarmed me regarding the inhabitants actions and attitudes were how they treated one another once one was accused, how fast they jumped from blaming one person to the next and especially when one man shot another who was walking down the street thinking it was coming to kill them. This episode aligns with the other stories we have read because one or more characters are always afraid of something new happening that could change their lifestyle.
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ReplyDeleteThis addresses xenophobia because it shows that these characters were scared of the cretures and it shows the attitude towards other people/creatures.
the episode adresses the concept of xenophobia by picking out certain people and waiting for the towns people to drive themselves to madness. in one of the stories we read, i can't remember the name, we found out that the aliens had sent a donkey to watch the human's behavor. by doing it this way the donkey could see how xenophobic the human's really are. it doesn't take an actull alien to cause panic, all it takes is the fears and distrust in the comunnity
ReplyDeleteI’ve seen this episode before and I quite enjoyed the questions that it poses for humanity. The aliens in the episode cause chaos are feeding the paranoia that is ingrained into us. However, this episode differs from the explanation of xenophobia that has been shown in our previous texts. In those stories, xenophobia takes a more literal definition where it is something completely foreign from the humans in the story while in this xenophobia is shown through the unknown.
ReplyDeleteIn the episode of Twilight Zone, the neighbors didn't believe the little boy saying that there were aliens there. After the car started and stopped on its own, all of them suddenly teamed up against the owner and became suspicious of anyone who did something seemingly strange. This same idea was seen in Puppet Show, where the humans were at first cautious and suspicious of the alien as well.
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