Looking Glass of One’s Own Self People base their opinions through opinions they have learned through experience. Some take what parents or elderly people have taught them and apply it to their own life. This is one major way one makes decisions, as well as forming biases. With these developed biases people then come to a conclusion, solution, or verdict with any scenario thrown in their direction. Though people learn from others in some situations, they have to make their own decisions and own biases because these people that they are learning from are not them. People are individual, there are no duplicates in life. One is one so in order to look into oneself it has to be fully them. Twelve Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet in 1957,
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Mr. Davis has a belief that every life has value and that this young boy’s life should be more important to reflect on before sending him to his death. Juror number seven is a big baseball fan. In these scenes this point reflects that all this juror cares about is baseball. He doesn’t care if the boy is killed or if he is saved, all he cares about is getting this meeting over with so he can get to the game. Juror number four has his belief in “logic”, so he has his attention towards the point that the witnesses made an oath in court and he utilizes the stories of the witnesses like the lady saying she saw the boy in the act actually drive the knife in his dad. Though each of the jurors has a different view in their own beliefs the only one that sticks out is Mr. Davis’ in the value of every person’s life no matter who they are or what they did. Davis is able to make the others realize how big of a deal life is for every person. Juror number five was born and raised “in the slump” like the young boy. He brings to the attention of the jurors that no matter where someone is from they have the ability to grow up and mature into a developed successful individual. His belief is in reason and makes example of how the knife is held in a knife fight and how to thrust it into another person. He makes this example of how the knife is opened and the way this is done there wouldn’t be time to switch the knife to thrust down into a person. “Each person needs to know that his way is not necessarily the only right way” (Roth 153). The beliefs of each one of the jurors makes the meeting more of a heated argument rather than a civilized communication to each
Mr. Davis has a belief that every life has value and that this young boy’s life should be more important to reflect on before sending him to his death. Juror number seven is a big baseball fan. In these scenes this point reflects that all this juror cares about is baseball. He doesn’t care if the boy is killed or if he is saved, all he cares about is getting this meeting over with so he can get to the game. Juror number four has his belief in “logic”, so he has his attention towards the point that the witnesses made an oath in court and he utilizes the stories of the witnesses like the lady saying she saw the boy in the act actually drive the knife in his dad. Though each of the jurors has a different view in their own beliefs the only one that sticks out is Mr. Davis’ in the value of every person’s life no matter who they are or what they did. Davis is able to make the others realize how big of a deal life is for every person. Juror number five was born and raised “in the slump” like the young boy. He brings to the attention of the jurors that no matter where someone is from they have the ability to grow up and mature into a developed successful individual. His belief is in reason and makes example of how the knife is held in a knife fight and how to thrust it into another person. He makes this example of how the knife is opened and the way this is done there wouldn’t be time to switch the knife to thrust down into a person. “Each person needs to know that his way is not necessarily the only right way” (Roth 153). The beliefs of each one of the jurors makes the meeting more of a heated argument rather than a civilized communication to each