Freedom of Thought
In Lawrence and Lee’s composed play Inherit the Wind, the characters debate for the preferment of freedom of thought. Bertram Cates faces “fine and imprisonment” for choosing to “speak what he thinks”, and his lawyer, Drummond, is used as the voice of reason to help Cate’s dilemma (Lawrence and Lee 47). The use of Scope’s Trial is a ploy to make a mockery of the limited right to think using examples like the Bible and Darwin’s theories. Drummond shadows the underlying theme of the play, the promotion of free thought, by being used as a symbol to speak for equality in education.
Drummond, the lawyer, is used as a symbol to speak out against the censoring of knowledge. He argues that the free people have the right to think,
In Lawrence and Lee’s composed play Inherit the Wind, the characters debate for the preferment of freedom of thought. Bertram Cates faces “fine and imprisonment” for choosing to “speak what he thinks”, and his lawyer, Drummond, is used as the voice of reason to help Cate’s dilemma (Lawrence and Lee 47). The use of Scope’s Trial is a ploy to make a mockery of the limited right to think using examples like the Bible and Darwin’s theories. Drummond shadows the underlying theme of the play, the promotion of free thought, by being used as a symbol to speak for equality in education.
Drummond, the lawyer, is used as a symbol to speak out against the censoring of knowledge. He argues that the free people have the right to think,