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Twelve Angry Men

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Twelve Angry Men is a play with interesting conflicts. This play takes place in a jury room, where it is hot, sweaty and cluttered. The case is about a young boy accused of murdering his father. One man is keeping them from leaving, the man who voted not guilty. You can imagine how irritated the others might be when there is eleven votes against one and no one is allowed to leave until they have all agreed on a verdict. It is up to one man to convince the jury to give the young boy a fair trial. Twelve Angry Men is a play about one guy standing his ground and overcoming seemly insurmountable opposition to change other people’s minds. The play Twelve angry men has a lot of imagery. One example of imagery in this play is the quote “SEVEN (to …show more content…

THREE turns his back on them. There is silence for a moment and then the FOREMAN goes to the door and knocks on it. It opens. The GUARD looks in and sees them all standing. The GUARD holds the door for them as they begin slowly to file out. EIGHT waits at the door as the others file past him. Finally he and THREE are the only ones left. THREE turns around and sees that they are alone. Slowly he moves toward the door. Then he stops at the table. He pulls the switch-knife out of the table and walks over to EIGHT with it. He holds it in the approved knife-fighter fashion and looks long and hard at EIGHT, pointing the knife at his belly. EIGHT stares back. Then THREE turns the knife around. EIGHT takes it by the handle. THREE exits. EIGHT closes the knife, puts it away and, taking a last look around the room, exits, closing the door. The camera moves in close on the littered table in the empty room, and we clearly see a slip of crumpled paper on which are scribbled the words “Not guilty.”) I find this resolution to be rather beautiful, a fair trial was given and they walk away with a new way of seeing things. I feel that Twelve Angry Men is a lesson, this play teaches us to always be fair, to not judge, and to not follow other people judgement. This is a very important lesson to learn, i feel as though many of us believe in things right of the bat without a second thought. We do this with rumors, opinions

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