I went to see “The Twelve Angry Jurors”, put on by the University of Memphis, for one of my outside events. It was a very interesting play with a lot of personalities. The aspect of the play that I got the most out of was how some of the characters were so driven by their own prejudices, emotions, and past experiences, and how they influenced their decision on whether the person was guilty or not. There is a specific part in the play where one of the jurors gets so mad at another juror that he says, “I’m going to kill you!” This is significant because this is what a witness said that the accused person said before he supposedly killed his father. This just shows how hateful and quick to judge that humankind is. We are so quick to point the finger at others without even knowing if it is true. Also, for me this was all significant because, as a Christian, I believe that it is just as bad to murder someone as it is to hate someone like the one juror hated the other juror. This play really showed me how sinful and impulsive the human kind is. It also showed how preoccupied we are with our own lives and the little things that are going on in our lives, and when someone else’s life is on the line, a lot of the times we are very quick to just pass by on others’ lives. I saw this in the play when some of the characters wanted to simply vote that the person was guilty without even talking about it because they just wanted to go home and eat dinner or go to a baseball game. We put unimportant things as our top priorities and don’t think about the well being of others.
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Excellent job!
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