Names In 12 Angry Men By Reginald Rose

A scientific research conducted proved that most people can judge how successful a person is by judging from their name. Names are significant because it is how people identify and recognize one. Names are what people's first impression of one, whether it's how one acts or what one looks like.Therefore, reginald Rose, author of 12 Angry men , chose not to give any of the characters specific names to show how every character represents/ stereotypes someone in our society,and he didn't want names to colour the perception of the character. Furthermore, the author decided to call each character by the juror number to make us better understand their characteristics, and how closely they relate to our society. An example of this is when rose made Juror 9 represent the old/ wise people in our society.The text states, “ well, it's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of other. He gambled for …show more content…
I respect his motives. The boy on trial is probably guilty, but i want to hear more.( pg two8)” This illustrates that since juror 9 is the old/ wise one, he knows a thing or two about getting the support of others and that is why he voted “ not guilty”,so juror 8 won't immediately back down when he saw no one agreed with him. In addition, juror ten represents the racist in our society.Juror ten makes an awful comment about how the boy was probably not guilty because he was not white and grew up in the slums. He thinks that everyone who grew up in the slums are all the same. “They’re violent, They’re vicious, they’re ignorant, and they will cut us up. (pg 65)” Juror ten describes them. This demonstrates Juror ten thinks his race is superior and based a whole group of