Monsters Are Due Theme

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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Theme: Fear and suspicion are destructive.
One major theme of Rod Serling's The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street is that fear and suspicion are destructive. My first example is how paranoid everyone is about each other after the power went out. The neighbors all start coming up with their theories about who the monster is without giving any proof. Then, when Les Goodman's car turns on by itself, they interrogate and blame him for everything (pg.76). They make him an outsider when the woman tells everyone that he stares at the sky at night. They don't trust or listen to him and use him as a scapegoat. Through the teleplay, the residents of Maple Street cycle through suspects to figure out the truth. Their fears take control as they pick out every idiosyncrasy that people have. The stand out to me was Steve's radio set. They all thought that just because Mrs. Brand complained about him always being in the basement he was the monster, Mrs. Brand knows this (pg.81). That's why she was so jittery and quick to defend Steve. Anything that the residents think is weird and different will surely be prosecuted by what is deemed normal on Maple Street.

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