Twelve Angry Men is a drama by Reginald Rose that later became a television play and film. The play was first broadcast in 1954 and tells the story of a homicide trial and the interactions amongst the jurors. Initially, eleven of the twelve jurors believe the defendant to be guilty but, over the course of the drama, the one doubtful juror manages to convince the others that the case is not as straightforward as it originally seems.
In Reginald Roses play script Twelve Angry Men the jurors are the voices of the defendants justice Twelve men sit in a room on the brink to determine the fate of one young boys life Did he do it If he didnt who did In the beginning there was very little communication the men enter the small bleak room many had already come to believe the young boy was guilty was this their real opinion or were some more anxious about getting out of the jury room and attend to their appointments jobs and familie
Liberty and Justice for all These are the words Americans live by America is dependent on a court system which just so happens to have a jury A jury is a group of people that decide whether someone is innocent or guilty The play Twelve Angry Men was about a jury system trying to debate about a tough topic that couldve affected a boys life forever Some of the jurors were very fair and others just wanted to get out of the court room fast Juror four represented the best of our American justice sys
In our textbook the process in which a group selects a leader is through process of elimination In the movie 12 Angry Men the emergence of a leader somewhat follows along that line The movie begins with all of the jury minus one agreeing that the defendant was guilty of murdering his father Juror 8 Henry Fonda who voted against the other eleven jurors believed that there was enough reasonable doubt to question the case With him being the only one who disagreed I believed it was to be assumed th
The book To Kill a Mockingbird is directly comparable to the movie 12 Angry Men Both Texts show the theme that true understanding takes time study and effort but To Kill a Mockingbird shows what happens when people do not take the time to obtain a true understanding In the book Tom Robinson is convicted for allegedly raping a teenage girl even though there was sensible doubt that Tom did not rape the girl and there was no concrete evidence In the film a teenage male Puerto Rican was accused of