In a courtroom, there are many differents components that make a case. A Judge, A Jury, Prosecution and a Defense. The play 12 Angry Men by: Reginald Rose, she showed that there was 2 jurors that were very hard to work with in the 3rd and 10th juror. To understand 12 Angry Men Better, you need to look at the little things that described and that made the jury. There are many different ways that a trial can go wrong.…
The prosecutor also kept changing what he thought happened based on how the trial was going at that time. The trial ended up going exactly how the prosecution wanted, and delivered two guilty verdicts of robbery and murder in the first degree on July 14th,…
Harun, the protagonist of Kamel Daoud’s novel, The Meursault Investigation, and Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger, are strikingly similar people that commit strikingly similar crimes. Harun’s obsession with Meursault leads him to subconsciously mold his life into one so similar to Meursault's that he confuses the two. However, they are ultimately two different men, despite their similar characteristics and experiences, because they are the products of different sets of circumstances. Both Harun and Meursault are murderers that face absurd consequences for their crimes. It is absurd that Meursault can kill a man but only be condemned to death for not loving his mother properly.…
Precision and Order Meursault is a character that is all about doing things his way. He’s the type of person that has a routine, and would not think twice about changing said routine. When he's not working, his idea of leisure is either swimming, being with Marie, or going to Celeste’s diner. The diner is a place where he can eat a nice meal and just keep to himself, while Celeste tries to make conversation. One day, he notices a strange woman, and he cannot help but notice how robotic she is.…
Twelve Angry Men is a film about a jury of twelve men who are assessing a murder trial. The trial’s outcome would determine if an 18 year would be sentenced to death. The men went into the jury room with an assumption that the defendant was guilty. They did an open vote where everyone raised their hands to determine who felt he was guilty or not guilty. Every juror, but one, raised their hands for guilty, some of the jurors slowly raised their hands after seeing the rest of the room raise their hand.…
1. Plato’s “The Phaedo” is a book that is centered around the notion of death. The book tells the story of the final day of the philosopher Socrates , so naturally the conversation quickly turns to an analysis of the philosopher’s attitude towards death. Socrates says “he, or any man who has the spirit of philosophy, will be willing to die, but he will not take his own life, for that is held to be unlawful,” and it is here that the discussion begins. Cebes challenges Socrates statement, asking “why do you say that a man ought not to take his own life, but that the philosopher will be ready to follow the dying.”…
In his play Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose brings us back in time to 1957, to a jury room of a New York Court of Law where one man, Juror #8, confronts the rest of the jury to look at a homicide case without prejudice, and ultimately convinces Juror #2, a very soft-spoken man who at first had little say in the deliberation. Throughout the play, several jurors give convincing arguments that make one think about whether the boy is “guilty” or “not guilty.” Ultimately, one is convinced by ethos, logos, and pathos. We can see ethos, logos, and pathos having an effect on Juror #2 as he begins as a humble man and changes into someone brave at the end. Although all three modes play a part in convincing Juror #2, pathos is the most influential because…
For example, as his trial progresses, Meursault begins to view it in a paradoxical way. Meursault recalls that “[he] was listening, and [he] could hear that [he] was being judged intelligent. But [he] couldn’t understand how an ordinary man’s good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man” (Camus 100). He recognizes the curiosity of the trial, that the lawyers spend more time on arguing his morality instead of the fact that he had murdered a man. Meursault also finds himself unable to give a proper justification for his actions on that fateful day at the beach, or at least, a justification that society would accept.…
Meursault is a stranger to himself and to the society he lives in. Meursault is numb to his life, he does not feel any love, regret, mourn. Meursault is alive, but he acts mechanical. Meursault is unable to control his actions and he acts spontaneously. When Meursault shot the Arab he acted on the spot and shot him six time and claimed that it was “self-defense”.…
The murder is the climax because it happened because Meursault felt that it was hot and that the sun was in his eyes. The importance of the murder being mostly motivated by the sun is to reinforce the idea that nature in this case is the source of the problem. The significance of this scene is to show how sun and heat are the main controlling factors of…
The play is set in a New York City Court of Law jury room. The play opens to the empty jury room, and the Judge’s voice is heard. The judge is giving a set of final instructions to the twelve jurors. It’s a murder case, the jurors have to find if the boy is guilty for the murder of his own father and that if it requires sentence for the defend to be death penalty. After all these instructions and all other things that jurors did taking a short break, complaint about the room it’s hot, without air conditioning and the fan also doesn’t work too.…
During the first scene, the Judge defines and stablishes the problem, which is clearly specified; determine whether the boy is guilty…
He is a nervous, unassertive bank teller. He claims the defendant is guilty hoping to avoid conflict with other, more opinionated jurors. They begin to review the evidence and discuss eye-witness accounts. The turning point comes when the jurors discuss how rare the knife is that is used in the murder. The architect carries the same knife, which he pulls from his pocket.…
The idea of a trial is for a victim to get justice and for a criminal to be punished for his or her crime. The way that the punishment is decided depends on the jury and on the judges chosen to listen to the case. The novel The Stranger by Albert Camus is based on a man who is charged with premeditated murder and sentenced to death by guillotine. The book starts off with the death of the central character, Meursault’s, mother. In the very beginning of the book we are introduced to Meursault’s peculiar behavior.…
Besides being a gripping, triumphant story told in a unique way 12 Angry Men is in many ways a tale of a Devil’s Advocate and how his leadership allows the jury of which he is a member to open themselves to new information, perspectives, and possibilities. Juror 8 is subtly implied to be the “good guy” by his dress; the only pure white suit among a dozen modes of dress, and initial script blocking; going straight to the window, the only initial source of light in the room and almost wistfully gazing out at the sky to the point of distraction. From the outset, he is portrayed almost as an Angel’s Advocate among devils. He then proceeds to voice the only dissenting opinion and to explore it rigorously enough to allow all the other jurors to…