Characters
Juror 8 votes not guilty from the beginning because he believes the boy on trial deserves this.
A jury who talks through his case without snap judgment
This setting of the play serves as a plot device, contributing to the tension between the jurors.
A “heated” jury room
This juror, with his insistence on “reasonable doubt,” reminds the audience of the power of a “dissenting voice.”
Juror 8
In total agreement
Many of the jurors believed that since the boy was young and poor he was also this.
Violent, trouble, hateful, capable of murder, etc.
Juror 11, being an outsider, appreciates the American justice system and considers it his __________ to be as fair as possible.
Duty/responsibility
This repeated action in the play progresses the plot as it shows doubt creeping in to more and more characters’ minds.
Voting
Name one contributing factor to the corruption of the justice system in the play.
Implicit bias/personal prejudice, bigotry, apathy…
Unconscious prejudice or one-sided view about a group of people
implicit bias
Name one of the -isms demonstrated by the jury.
Racism, classism, sexism, ageism
After Juror 10 disrespects Juror 5, we can infer that 10 is also judging the defendant based on this.
His background, living in "the slums"
While the themes are timeless, the play is set in the 1950s, which is evident in the play in this way.
Lack of diversity on the jury
The initial 11 to 1 vote represents the power of this force in shaping our opinions and influencing our behavior.
Conformity/peer pressure
Fair and just; the parts of this word mean “not biased/one-sided”
impartial
When the jurors can’t agree, many of them want to end the deliberation quickly by declaring this.
A hung jury
Juror 7 just wants to get to the play he has tickets for, even when the case involves a human life. He represents this feeling toward the justice system.
Apathy
Juror 11, an immigrant, corrects the grammar of Juror 10 when he says, “He don’t even speak good English,” providing an example of this type of literary device.
Verbal or situational irony
The quest for this ideal throughout the play becomes a complicated, difficult journey that requires the jurors to work past their own biases and personal experiences.
Truth
Prosecuting a person twice for the same offense; not allowed in our court system
double jeopardy
Juror 8 reveals an identical murder weapon, proving the infallibility of this information or object presented in court as proof of a crime.
Evidence
Juror 3 is “alone” in his guilty vote at the end of the play, mirroring the “loneliness” in his life due to this situation.
Estrangement from his son
As tension builds between Jurors 3 and 8, we see a rising conflict between these two concepts that they represent.
Personal prejudice vs. rational justice
As Juror 8 prompts the other jurors to examine the eyewitness accounts of the murder from different points of view, he calls into question the infallibility of this.
Our perception, the way we see things
Person who is unreasonably attached to a prejudice against a certain group of people
bigot
When Juror 3 says the old man can't be trusted, he accidentally calls into question the _____ of both the old man and himself.
Credibility