12 Angry Men: Analysis of Communication Barriers, Summaries of Literature

Download 12 Angry Men: Analysis of Communication Barriers and more Summaries Literature in PDF only on Docsity! 12 Angry Men – Analysis of Communication Barriers SUBMITTED BY Kritika Kushwaha (16PT2-08) PT-MBA Oct-16 Batch 1 Overview In a New York City courthouse a jury commences deliberating the case of an 18-year-old Hispanic boy from a slum, on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death. If there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If found guilty, the boy will receive a death sentence. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote "guilty" except Juror 8, who argues that the boy deserves some deliberation. This irritates some of the other jurors, who are impatient for a quick deliberation. After a log discussion and multiple rounds of voting, jurors eventually decide on “not guilty”. In this report we will discuss the communication barriers of all 12 jury members. Juror 1 He tries to organize the entire discussion and give it a structured approach. He facilitated the entire proceedings of the discussion be it casting a secret ballot or allowing everyone to voice their opinion. However he did not provide with any specific inputs to the entire discussion. Juror 2 From the beginning until the end of the discussion, the juror #2 didn't participate much preferably listening to others arguments. We can say that the personality of this jury is passive and sometimes he had no idea from what he argued. For example, when 7th juror showed a knife, situation became chaotic but he didn't 4 Juror 7 He is a salesman. He less concerned and less committed in this premeditated homicide case. As a result he is not able to concentrate. Also the environmental factors kept him distracted throughout, till he switches on the fan. His participation is merely to say his stands and how his personal judgments toward the deliberation process. He is mostly concerned of his baseball tickets and sometimes ignores what is happening in the room. Instead of yelling nonsense and unreliable facts just to express his stands, he is frequently argued to anyone that tries to give point of view. Now, his assumption depends on his institution where I believe it's due to a lesser number of 'non-guilty' voters. In addition, it shows inconsistency (dissonance) and overconfidence bias as part of his verdict. These attributes has contributed to a very fundamental decision making of him. Juror 8 He is indeed the main protagonist of the film. At the very first minute and stage of the movie, he is the only juror who voted not guilty. Each and every word delivered by him shows how precisely and concisely determined. He showed his seriousness to deliberate the case thoughtfully and honestly as proposed by head-judge earlier. For instance when he says "I just don't find it easy to raise hand and send a boy to prison for life". He is always being attacked with "dangerous bullets" from those jurors who voted differently, but has shown an ethical and extraordinary feedback. His emotional intelligence has successfully closed the barrier of differentiation. Such determination (non-guilty decision) has brought to an issue of re-deliberation of the case. The only barrier that he could have had would have been internal noise, as he was seen lost 1-2 times in the movie. 5 Juror 9 He is a wise old man who firstly decides that the kid was guilty. But later on when he heard some logic thoughts and clarification from jury's number 8, his verdict turn into not guilty. Then, he becomes close friend with jury's number 8. In this movie, the personality that we can see in Jury's number 9 is he such an openness guy, he displayed kindness personality as the oldest in jury's meeting; he also has curiosity to further "develop" the case. For example, when he decided to change his mind into not guilty. His barrier was fear to be failure. Every person have fear, because sometime people start to rejecting a good idea just because it shows that the result might be 100% failure, although its only come from their thought, but because of fear to taking the risk, they tend to avoid the idea that might bring into successful. The reason that they try to reject risk is because they cannot handle when someone's telling them "I told you so, don't do this, don't do that." Juror 10 He was loudmouth, narrow-minded bigot, extremely rude and often interrupted people. He stereotypes people. He keeps talking about how these kids from slums are, about their upbringing and their values and the fact that they cannot even speak in English. He do not have a good in imagination, that he cannot imagine and cannot understand easily what the others think, he tend to think that he is the only one who are right, he cannot except his mistake and tend to stick with his answers. Other than that, he also score low in agreeableness when always insulting others and disrespect the elders. He tends to show that he not interested with others people problem and also with a filthy mouth he talk recklessly about everything. It's hard to find the solution when a person cannot 6 listen and accept others opinion and always think that he the only one who is right. It leads to tight arguments within them. For example in this movie, we can most of them feels dissatisfy to jury's 10- in terms of his overall attributes. Irrelevant idea- this is also one of the factors that create the barriers into decision making. Some people might fail to generate a good idea at the certain and specific time. They not even helping when they try to produce the idea that we know is irrational, but because they want to perceive as idea provider, they tend to raise argument-able ideas which is just make decision making process complicated. Juror 11 He works as watch maker most of the time is doing an observant in this movie; He is an immigrant based on his essence, possibly from Europe country. He believe and hopes that America can give a justice and he want to see how it done. In addition he also introverts person because most of the time in the meeting, he just being quiet. He is not an integrity person, which he cannot decide where he stands with, weather with guilty or not guilty side; this is the answer for his value. Most of the time he did the observation, but lastly he also try to give his opinion and give a question for everyone to think. Barrier for him, he was holding himself from expressing. Juror 12 He is among the juror that portrays no-interested, passion about the case at the beginning. He is busy about his own personal matter rather than further participating in the discussion. He is marketing agency and sometimes demonstrates his arrogant in this movie. His personality would be narcissisms