The Monsters Due On Maple Street Analysis

Monsters Are Real Despite culture, gender, or lifestyle, most children have the common fear of creatures that might be lurking in the shadows. Mature people know the truth, “monsters aren’t real don’t be silly”. Of course they would say they don’t exist — much similarly to how an alcoholic would not admit he has a problem. William Golding’s classic, the Lord of the Flies, and the Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters Due on Maple Street”, share a cynical theme portraying how savagery and chaos loom in everyone just bubbling beneath the surface of civilization and order. Both of the works show the common theme that evil lives in everyone by placing their characters in an unexpected situation that begins to dissolve the rules of society. In the Lord of the Flies, the schoolboys start their paradise island adventure with a plan. They organize themselves into groups to accomplish tasks that need to be done. Gradually, they forget about civilization and their little society breaks apart which leads to mayhem. This is similar to “The Monsters Due on Maple Street” because they too start off in a peaceful and friendly neighborhood but the second they are confronted with an unexpected problem, they begin to …show more content…
In this episode, there is a nuclear bomb warning and everyone must prepare for the possible threat. The fact that only one family has a fallout shelter creates extreme moral tensions between the neighbors. Violence ensues and friendships are broken. In the end, when the warning is lifted, the damage is already done. The bomb didn’t do any harm, like everyone believed, but rather the people themselves caused the damage. This is like how the kids in the Lord of the Flies and the people in “The Monsters on Maple Street” truly believed there was some threat of danger but there wasn’t and they were the ones responsible for the ruin at the