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Juror # 3 In The Play '12 Angry Men' By Reginald Rose

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In the play “12 Angry Men’’ by Reginald Rose, there are twelve jurors who are gradually revealed to have very different personalities, motivations and opinions. Juror #3 is portrayed as the main antagonist as his points on why the boy is guilty or innocent have a crucial role over the course of the play. We can say that Juror #3 has a rigid opinion and is not really used to people disagreeing or arguing with him as the play shows, as soon as he had an argument with Juror #8, he verbally attacks him and while some of the other Jurors are holding him back, he says “Let me go! I’ll kill him. I’ll kill him!” Which shows that he isn’t one of the Jurors that likes different ideas that go against his own. Towards the start of the play, he is the main reason almost all the jurors decided to vote ‘guilty’ as he gives convincing points to why he believes that the boy killed his father. After every single vote, one person moves to the ‘not guilty’ side and this annoyed him the most as a few people started questioning …show more content…

Especially the Jurors who want to sit and talk about why the boy is either guilty or not. He is called a ‘sadist’ and ‘self-appointed public avenger’ and he only wants the boy to die for personal reasons and not facts. After Juror #8 says this, the audience knows that Juror # isn’t one of the people in the room who has a good personality. The other jurors have many mixed reactions towards Juror #3 and his way of telling people that he is right and everyone else is wrong. Others in the room don’t enjoy how he has a ‘bully-like’ attitude and what he says goes as he talks with power and one of the examples of this is when he bullies Juror #2 as he is being swayed by both him and Juror #8 as they are debating on whether the boy is guilty or not. Juror #2 doesn’t really like how Juror #3 has conducted himself with this and he decides to move to Juror #8’s side as well and this eventually happens to all the

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