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Reasonable Doubt In Twelve Angry Men By Reginald Rose

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Reasonable doubt proves that critical thinking is important when someone’s life is in the hands of someone else. “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose, is a play about twelve jury members who must deliberate and decide the fate of a man who is accused of murdering his father. These twelve men must unanimously agree on whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty without a reasonable doubt. Just like the jurors, those that experienced this play have not witnessed the crime that took place on the night in question. Everyone, but the writer, is in the dark about who may have committed the crime. This is an important element when deciding who the best and worst jurors were. There were no facts as to who was right or wrong because we didn’t see the …show more content…

At the beginning of deliberation, the jury members took their first vote. The vote was eleven for guilty and one for not guilty. During the play “Twelve Angry Men”, when the other jury members started getting mad at the fact that the Architect didn’t agree with the guilty voters the Advertising Man said, “I’m just thinking out loud now but it seems to me that it’s up to us to convince this gentleman (indicating the Architect) that we’re right and he’s wrong,” (Rose), because he knew without a doubt that he was right and the Architect was wrong. He already had it in his mind that his job was to convince the Architect to change his vote to guilty rather than to discuss the fact that the defendant could be innocent. He continued to disregard the fact that something important was happening by ignoring what anyone else had to say. At one point in the play, he ignores the conversation that is going on and starts drawing on a piece of paper. This juror had no respect for the other jury members or the people involved in the trial. He didn’t care about anything other than his life and his advertising business and it showed because he constantly talked about …show more content…

He was also the best because his career and his personality showed why he was the right person to be chosen as the foreman. His job as a Physical Education Teacher proved to be useful because he knew how to handle large groups of people. He had the ability to take control when it was needed and he knew when to listen. He was the best because that term in this evaluation meant that he had to be the voice of reason. He couldn’t choose one side over the other without compromising his role as the level-headed leader. The Advertising Man was the worst jury member because of the attitude that he had during the deliberation. The way that he acted showed that he came into the trial thinking one way and that he had planned on leaving the trial with the exact same attitude. His career also shows that he was used to selling products by telling the consumers what they needed without listening to what they had to say. He had that exact attitude throughout the play when he tried to convince the other jurors that the man was guilty. The Advertising Man was the worst because that term in this evaluation meant that he didn’t question anything at all. He didn’t care if the witnesses were lying or if they were wrong about what they saw. He wanted it to be over so he could go back to what he thought was more important to

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