12 Angry Men Behavior

The behavior and attitudes throughout the entire movie from all the jurors show that it can be hard for everyone to keep calm and civil in a time such as the one the juror’s were going through. The twelve jurors all had different beliefs as to their verdict, different ideas and different behaviors. Having twelve men in a small, hot room for long periods of time is chaos in itself. There were different attitudes, some calm, mad, frustrated, angry, not caring. It was hard for all of them to remain calm and come to a verdict throughout the movie. An attitude as described in the book is “a favorable or unfavorable evaluative reaction towards something or someone (Myers p.120).” In the movie juror number eight was the only one that believed the
boy may not be guilty, the attitude the other jurors had towards him were very rude. They all began to get frustrated with the fact that he was trying to convince them that they boy was innocent. They would begin to yell at one another, juror number three became so outraged that he began to insult others when they would change their verdicts. Behaviors began to change as well, some jurors would begin to smoke, leave the room for a little bit, pace around the room and others would just sit there ready to get this over with. It was clear to see they all had different attitudes and behaviors but at the end of the movie they all came to an agreement, that there was enough doubt in everyone to convict the boy no guilty.