The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn.”

Serling has a lot of meaning in this statement and it makes complete sense. Every generation has that group of bad people who have these "thoughts" that another group of people are bad or even they mix and trick people into thinking that it's so. For example, Hitler was a dictator in Germany. He brainwashed his country into thinking that they are the dominant race and everyone else deserved lesser than them. As a result, millions of people died. It was an epidemic, yet there were many other incidents such as the Salem Witch Trials. A group of girls turned their whole community against each other and innocent people suffered the consequences. But I guess that's how our world works. While there's the "Yin", such as the bad, there is the "Yang", such as the good, who have no desire less than to stop the bad. Even so, that's how the world goes 'round. It seems that's what Serling is trying to convey.

Good Night and Good Luck

Murrow was a huge influence on television today. He fought with a weapon, his opinion and he wouldn't stop till what he knew was right, was heard. And to that extent, I agree with what he is trying to say in his speech. TV should be used to report news to the public and show the good and bad to us, and on the other side, just for fun. He would be proud of television today. Murrow would see that everyday news is reported to us so we could see what's happening in the outside world and what's beyond our reach as citizens.

11.16.10

This is a little bit early. but I wanted to post it so I wouldn't have to worry within this week :).

Herrick: He [Hale] goes among them that will hang, sir. And he prays with them . . . (pg.1320)

At the end of Act III, Hale knew this was madness. He's the only person with professional affiliation with God who is on the other side of the conflict . . . The side that isn't accusing without evidence. But it's good though. Worst comes to worst, Danforth will arrest him too. But I'm glad someone came to their senses to notice that Salem is out of control and this entire fiasco needed to end.