Part One: 1A- Allison McCarty

Prejudice gets in the way of Truth and how it applies to Twelve Angry Men.

At the beginning of Twelve Angry Men, many of the jurors vote guilty when asked to say their opinion, mostly because the defendant comes from the slums. The jurors hold prejudice against the people living in the slums, Juror Ten going so far to say that they are used to killing people because they live in poverty and violence. Juror Ten is even one of the last characters in the book to hold out against a not guilty verdict because of his out dated beliefs. Society is even like this today, siding with their opinion on what they think a group is like instead of listening to the facts.

In Twelve Angry Men, the majority of the play is Juror Eight trying to convince everyone else that the defendant is not guilty because of reasonable doubt, and that includes him breaking down the prejudice that plagues the jury. Once Juror Eight begins to dismantle the stereotypical views that the jurors hold of the defendant and his background, they come to a agreement of not guilty.