Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men

In Reginald Rose’s play, Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors had to determine if a 16-year-old boy is guilty of killing his own father or not. eleventh juror says, “We have a responsibility. This is a remarkable thing about democracy…That we are notified by mail to come down to this place and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. This is one of the reasons why we are strong. We should not make it a personal thing.” the eleventh juror clearly thinks high of America. Does this system really work and will it effect the outcome. In the play it shows us how important the jury system is without really telling us how important it is. For example, at the begging of the play we can see the 12 men moving towards a room where no one else is allowed in which makes the jurors very comfortable with saying whatever they want. We saw how useful the jury system is because one of the jurors voted not guilty changed the whole situation from sending the kid to the electric chair to give him his freedom. We have eleven jurors that consider this case to so obvious, so

They all vote guilty on the first vote except one of them, juror #8, votes not guilty so the rest of the jurors got angry at him because they said it is so obvious that the boy is guilty you do not even have to look at the evidence to see that but juror 8 says "testimony that could put a boy into the electric chair should be that accurate" ten every one stops for a second then juror 8 says I just want to talk about it then a juror stands up and says "What's there to talk about? Eleven of us think he's guilty. No one had to think about it twice except you" so