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The teleplay ‘Twelve Angry Men' By Reginald Rose is a courtroom drama which exposes in a dramatic way the prejudices or bias some citizens can bring to a jury situation. However, the play also presents a positive view or insight about the open-mindedness of characters who wish to pursue the truth and act according to their conscience, the characters that show prejudice against the defendant (the boy) make assumptions about him based on his poverty statues, his neighbourhood and his ethnicity. Jurors Number Eight and Number Nine by contrast wish to pursue. The truth and be true to themselves.
One scene which really shows anxiety between the jurors and illustrates their anger towards each-other would have to be when Number 8 says on page two, ‘There were eleven votes for guilty. It's not so easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.' This is the first sign that the viewer notices that there is going to be tension between the jurors. As......
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