Examples Of Justice In 12 Angry Men

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Based on the article by Manual Velasquez (et. al.), “Justice and Fairness,” the concepts of justice and fairness are clearly illustrated as distinct from one another. Here, "Justice means giving each person what he or she deserves," while fairness "has been used to refer to the ability to make judgments that are not overly general, but that are concrete and specific to a particular case." These ideas can be applied to the play, 12 Angry Men, where the playwright, Reginald Rose, illustrates the impossibility of true justice within a legal system where fairness is absent.

Justice and fairness are connected and in the legal system you cannot have one without the other. In the play, Rose showed juror number four being unjust to the boy because