Examples Of Injustice In 12 Angry Men

Justice is hope. Something people cling on to, trying to justify a reason for our existence. Justice is a lie. Every instance of “justice” is a scramble to cover up the countless accounts of injustice that bleeds through our society, a pathetic attempt to prove that we are a compassionate species. Justice’s definition can only be defined by its opposite. Justice is the redemption, the trump of injustice, justice can only exist while injustice ridicules the world. It’s always been stressed that it is by sheer luck that we exist, because of the near impossible conditions that had to be met. Any closer to the sun, we’d all be dead, any farther, and ultimately our outcome would be the same. However, we don’t seem to have an appreciation of our

What makes classical literature classic, and a common subject to study, usually comes to the call of justice that comes within it. A common call that is made within these focuses on racial injustice of those times, such as the play Twelve Angry Men. Racial prejudice was common around the time of the play (1947), and was socially accepted. This is illustrated through the play with people with point of views such as Juror #10. Juror #10 made claims, in reference to black people, “[those] people were born to lie! It’s born within them!” Comments like that weren’t uncommon within the 20th century, but over time we're fought and resisted, such as Juror #8 arguing, "prejudice always obscures the truth." These pieces of literature help paint a picture of how racial injustice was extremely prevalent back then, and there are many instances of a calling to fix this. We can look at this, and assume that this is in the past, and we live in an equal world, and although racism isn’t as blatant, it is still a battle people are fighting. Police brutality is a subject that has recently joined the discussion, and while it has always been, it has entered the public eye. People of color are still subjected to violence by the very people who should be their protectors. People are killed, assaulted, and harassed on the daily, but the killers, assaulters, and harassers still stay in power, still keep their jobs. That is the unfair reality that is our society, our