Similarities Between 12 Angry Men And To Kill A Mockingbird

How do Twelve Angry Men and To Kill a Mockingbird illustrate the dangers of prejudice

The impairment to equality that prejudice presents society with is absolute. The play by Reginald Rose Twelve Angry Men and Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird whilst both face the danger of prejudice, the outcomes ultimately contrast each other. To Kill a Mockingbird depicts the unjust killing of an African-American man, on the other hand, Twelve Angry Men highlights a discussion between a jury where justice prevails in the end. In both texts, the jury exemplify biased opinions which sporadically end in violence. However, the most dangerous part of prejudice is the blatant ignorance that society hinder to diminish, leaving an unjust mark on those targeted.

In attempt seek agreement of his views, he manipulates and fabricates the facts from others towards Tom Robinson. Lee describes Mr Ewell as an abusive bigoted alcoholic who has a history of harming his children prior, this describes Mr Ewell’s ideals and his values in life. To justify his own thoughts, Mr Ewell tells a fictitious tale about Tom Robinson, "I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella!" Mr Ewell’s description of Tom Robinson perfectly fits a description of himself, perhaps indicating self-hate “Mr Ewell could have beaten up Mayella.” (Miss is something like this too in depth for English? Because I was going to add more but I wasn’t sure) Through his unjust actions, Lee highlights that being ignorant leads to discriminatory biased opinions towards those who are unfamiliar. It is sought to harm others rather than stay an opinion. Similarly, juror 10 in Twelve Angry Men highlights the ignorance and agression that follows being prejudice. His outbursts of rage suggest that he, like Bob Ewell, attempts to justify his biased opinion by condenscending people that come from the slums, “They are born liars.” The act of discrimination proves that biased opinions are rather those that are afriad to defy the stereotypes and have an opinon for oneself. Rose elucidates that being ignorant and close minded easily leads to violent disagreements when encountered with an