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This essay is in response to the prompt: How do Harper Lee’s 1930’s novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and Sidney Lumet’s 1957 film ‘12 Angry Men’, explore injustice?
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The injustice of the American judicial system is the focus of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Sidney Lumet’s 1957 courtroom drama 12 Angry Men. Set in 1930s Alabama and 1950s New York respectively, the action of both texts centres around the trials of individuals whose guilt is questionable. Despite the doubt expressed by Juror 8 in 12 Angry Men and the evidence presented by defence attorney Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, prejudicial attitudes tempt the white male jurors to reach guilty verdicts in both cases. Both texts question an American judicial process that purports to treat people, irrespective of race, ethnicity, or class, equally, and suggests instead that the jury system is inherently discriminatory.
