What Does Rose Value/Condemn?
“Twelve Angry Men” Assignment
1. Views and Values: Try and link views and values to the themes in the text where you can!
Identifying views and values
1. Identify three core views that you believe are expressed throughout ‘Twelve Angry Men’
2. Write three sentences about these views using the sample below as a model
Eg: Rose’s play challenges the audience to examine their own prejudice, exposing the dangers of prejudging, particularly in the court room.
3. What does Rose value / condemn? Identify three qualities/concepts/ideas that you believe Reginald Rose endorses, challenges or leaves unquestioned in ‘Twelve Angry Men’. Justify your response.
2. Setting: Rose’s play is all acted on the same set:
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The racist views do not hold sway for long.”
Using the themes in the text, develop interpretative statements about the text that link two or more of these ideas in one sentence. For example:
Throughout his play, Rose critiques the oppressive and discriminative environment of McCarthyist America, exploring the way some jurors use the power of their personality to attempt to sway others to share their point of view. Indeed, the 8th juror is aware of the effects and dangers of peer pressure and this is illustrated through his request to have the second (and possibly the most important vote) taken as an anonymous ballot (p.18) At various moments in the play, the 10th, 3rd and 7th jurors do try to sway the vote to ‘guilty’ through the use of intimidation rather than argument. What can be interpreted is another clear message conveyed by Rose through his play is that this type of intimidation will ultimately be unsuccessful. Logic and reason do win out over endemic prejudice, but what the play also illustrates is that for this to occur, there must be voices who are prepared to hold true to their convictions. This is clearly portrayed through the contrast between the “[interrupting]” and “[shouting]” of jurors 10 and 3 and the “[calm]” and reflective “[pauses]” of juror
1. Views and Values: Try and link views and values to the themes in the text where you can!
Identifying views and values
1. Identify three core views that you believe are expressed throughout ‘Twelve Angry Men’
2. Write three sentences about these views using the sample below as a model
Eg: Rose’s play challenges the audience to examine their own prejudice, exposing the dangers of prejudging, particularly in the court room.
3. What does Rose value / condemn? Identify three qualities/concepts/ideas that you believe Reginald Rose endorses, challenges or leaves unquestioned in ‘Twelve Angry Men’. Justify your response.
2. Setting: Rose’s play is all acted on the same set:
Analyse the imagery …show more content…
The racist views do not hold sway for long.”
Using the themes in the text, develop interpretative statements about the text that link two or more of these ideas in one sentence. For example:
Throughout his play, Rose critiques the oppressive and discriminative environment of McCarthyist America, exploring the way some jurors use the power of their personality to attempt to sway others to share their point of view. Indeed, the 8th juror is aware of the effects and dangers of peer pressure and this is illustrated through his request to have the second (and possibly the most important vote) taken as an anonymous ballot (p.18) At various moments in the play, the 10th, 3rd and 7th jurors do try to sway the vote to ‘guilty’ through the use of intimidation rather than argument. What can be interpreted is another clear message conveyed by Rose through his play is that this type of intimidation will ultimately be unsuccessful. Logic and reason do win out over endemic prejudice, but what the play also illustrates is that for this to occur, there must be voices who are prepared to hold true to their convictions. This is clearly portrayed through the contrast between the “[interrupting]” and “[shouting]” of jurors 10 and 3 and the “[calm]” and reflective “[pauses]” of juror