The conflict derives from Juror 10’s hate speech against the people of the slums, which induced negative emotions in the other jurors that led them to silent protest , turning away from Juror 10, not wanting to continue the discussion with him.
Juror 10 depicts the people of the slums as dangerous,violent, and vicious which ultimately lead to him concluding that, “they don’t need any big reason to kill someone either.” The other jurors, appalled by his hate speech, fell silent, stood up, and turned away from him. They simply wanted him to keep quiet and stop his hate speech as it was making them uncomfortable. At the same time, Juror 10 was appalled by the impudent reactions of the other jurors as he view himself as giving a zealous justification. Disparaged
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As seen from the beginning of the discussion, the foreman has always been trying to conform to the rules and to keep the conversation organised.It was his responsibility to maintain the harmony in the discussion. However, as seen from the scene whereby Juror 10 got out of his seat and the foreman decided to confront him about it,he displayed a competing style by being highly assertive even till the point of telling Juror 10 to take his seat. He was eventually told that he was doing a beautiful job by Juror 12 then told to return to his seat. The foreman ultimately went back to his seat resigned to his plight and this was when the discussion continued and the foreman just voiced out “Boy,I don’t care what you do.” This highlights that there was a shift of conflict management style towards avoidance. In general the foreman generally frequents the resolving strategy whereby he prefers to get rid of the conflict.The subdominant conflict strategy of avoidance occurs at rare instances such as the last point where he just wants nothing to do with the conflict and washes his hands of