The Theme for 12 Angry Men

There are many themes in the play "12 Angry Men". The main theme I am going to focus on is the theme of Justice. Justice throughout this story remains unclear. Is the boy guilty? Not Guilty? The jurors who are on trial are myopic. They are single minded. They automatically see the son as the murderer of this crime scene. Each juror out of the twelve have different influences and conceptions on how to handle this court case. Some are being irrational and then others are not. All twelve jurors are bias in some way. Some jurors take it seriously as if it were the real American system but others feel more personal about it because some jurors have experienced many injustices of their own in their past, so they know how the son feels being pestered with questions and judged guilty automatically. Juror eight insists the whole jury looks deeper into the evidence, while Juror three thinks he is guilty. Most jurors don't even want to be there and they don't really care about the whole situation. One juror even says "Who knows, maybe we can all go home." To enforce the theme of justice, this play shows values, ideas and prejudice towards each other but mainly to the son who killed his father.