The 10th Juror is prejudiced and racist against the boy and his race as well as his background. The 10th Juror ignores the evidence which results in him continually fighting against those who are voting not guilty, for no particular reason but his prejudice. Juror 11 disagreed with Juror 3, 7 and 10 as Juror 11 talked based on facts and he is strictly looking for justice rather than the people who just voted guilty for no real reason. The playwright indicates that the facts and truth is of outstanding importance when deliberating a judicial trial. Rose explores the idea that extreme prejudice can blind people to the truth.
Clint Eastwood, who directed the film and stared in it as Walt Kowalski, was more going for the vigilante justice, which is like most of his movies. I do not think that it handled it in any realistic type of way. Walt seemed to more of a grumpy old man who hated everyone. He even hated his own kids. Gran Torino was more of a movie that focused on sentimental values and emotional manipulation to do justice to the racial issue.
Throughout Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men the jurors deciding the verdict are clouded by their personal experiences and by their pre-judged assumptions instead of having objective views. The 8th juror is the protagonist of the play, he is perceived as the heroic one for using reason and logic to persuade the other jurors to get on side with him instead of his judgment being clouded by personal experiences. Unlike the 3rd juror who has been a part of the jury system for other trials bringing his own personal experience of his son into the case. Juror number 10 is one of the most fervent attackers of the defendants, he is bigoted and generalises the defendant instead of looking at him like an individual. It is the 8th juror who exemplifies the strength and importance of the jury in America’s justice system.
Lauren Slater states ''The fact is,'' Emler says, ''we've put antisocial men through every self-esteem test we have, and there's no evidence for the old psychodynamic concept that they secretly feel bad about themselves. These men are racist or violent because they don't feel bad enough about themselves. ''(Slater 860) Lauren Slater also met with Roy Baumeister of Case Western Reserve University. Essentially, Roy believes that the unexpected notion that self-esteem is overrated and to suggest that it may even is a culprit, not a cure. In Lauren Slater’s “Trouble with Self-Esteem” Baumeister and his colleagues write: ''People who believe themselves to be among the top 10 percent on any dimension may be insulted and threatened whenever anyone asserts that they are in the 80th or 50th or 25th percentile.
Latisha Hollis Soc120: Introduction to Ethics & Responsibility Instructor: Vahik Ovanessian August 29, 2012 Lenn Goodman believes that in the story “Some Moral Minima” was wrong for some of the issue he presented in the story. Lenn Goodman believe that everyone women, men and child should have the right to live freely been humanity. Goodman believes that judger shouldn’t be passing unless you know that what you are doing is morally wrong. I agree with Goodman on the issues that he discuss on terrorism, rape, polygamy, genocide, slavery and incest. There is no justification for killing for no reason or taking advantage of a person for sexual reason.
Juror 6: In the story "12 angry Men", by Reginald Rose, juror six is described as an honest but slo w man, one who finds it difficult to create a positive opinion, and is often listening and slowly tr ying to understand the opinions of others, rather then forming his own. In the text of the play, we can find examples of many of these characteristics of juror six and even more that were not given to us by the author. The first, and most obvious attribute about his personality is seen in the play b ut cannot be found in words. This is the act of not talking. Although not written of course, six doe s not say anything until about two thirds of the way into the first Act.
He is almost completely shunned from the town because he is trying to help a black man accused of rape. Mayella had told Tom, “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.” (p.241) She had tricked him to coming over to her. Then that’s about the time when she accuses him of rape. He had felt sorry for her, which is why he was falsely accused in the first place. Courthouse segregation was one of the biggest bits of racism I found in this book.
In the world we live in, it seems that every other person is out for self gain They will step on anyone and do whatever it takes to get what they want, but does that make them purely evil? What if in their final moments they go something good? Or if their evil ways are result’s of circumstances that they can no control over? It’s a hard line to draw and in King Lear Shakespeare explains why through the use of conclusions. The most important conclusion Shakespeare has drawn about the nature of humanity in King Lear is the fact that evil is not something the gods have cursed you with at birth but it is something that you choose for yourselfACt .
Major Themes Appearance vs. reality This issue is especially relevant to Iago. Although he is called "honest" by almost everyone in the play, he is treacherous, deceitful, and manipulative. Also applies to Desdemona, as Othello believes that she is deceitful and impure, although she is really blameless and innocent. Race Race is an extremely important theme; it has a great amount of influence on how people regard Othello‹for those who distrust black people merely on looks never like Othello, like Iago. Race also determines how Othello perceives himself as a rough outsider, though he is nothing of the sort.
Despite Atticus’s powerful arguments for Tom’s innocence, the all-white jury convicts the black man. The verdict adversely affects the Finches, especially Jem. When Tom is killed trying to escape from prison, Jem’s struggle with injustice comes to its culmination. Humiliated by the trial, Bob Ewell, Mayella’s father, continually threatens Atticus,