Inherit the Wind

Rough Copy Aumio Islam The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and premiered in 1955. In the play, Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, has three characteristics that negatively influence his conduct during the play. These three character traits are intolerance, conceit, and ignorance. The first of the three traits that Brady has in the play is his intolerance. Brady displays his intolerance consistently throughout the play; one example of his intolerance is shown in act one scene one, when he villainizes Cates shortly after arriving in Hillsboro. Brady asks the citizens…

Did too much power over the townspeople create problems with the small rural town of Hillsboro leaving Matthew Harrison Brady and Reverend J. Brown to inherit the wind? Although the town had convicted Cates verdict as guilty and he was fined $100 it didn’t really end there. In the story it was more of a fight for the freedom of an individual to express himself against a society which town leaders pressured the town society to and strongly believe in Creationism and to deny Darwinism. The main…

Cash has dependably been an enthusiasm to humankind, and individuals will do anything to get their hands on it. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind displays that the whole play is paraded as a sort of business scheme. Inherit the Wind demonstrates the spectacle of the Scopes Trial because both show the persecution of those who go against the dominant trend, individuals commodify themselves, and hatred is commercialized. Oppression to those who go against the dominant trend…

In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Matthew Harrison Brady is portrayed to be the most religious character in the play. Being religious means to believe in your religion’s god and it’s abilities, and to know aswell as accepting what the religion’s holy scriptures says. By far, Brady demonstrates all of that better than anyone else in the play. When Brady and Drummond are in an altercation during the monkey trial, Brady says “Natural law was born in the mind of the Heavenly…

Cash has dependably been an enthusiasm to humankind, and individuals will do anything to get their hands on it. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind displays that the whole play is paraded as a sort of business scheme. Inherit the Wind demonstrates the spectacle of the Scopes Trial because both show the persecution of those who go against the dominant trend, individuals commodify themselves, and hatred is commercialized. Oppression to those who go against the dominant trend…

Adapting history to the movie screen is not a novel concept. Many movie productions have captured audiences ' attentions and shed light on historical happenings. However, there is the occasional movie that goes above and beyond being a simple historical flick. Inherit the Wind is a perfect example of this exceptionalism. The movie, a classic take on the social issues of 1920 's America, is directed by Stanley Kramer and features stars like Gene Kelley, Spencer Tracey, and Fredric March (IMDb).…

“He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart”. Proverb 11:29 explains when someone creates a conflict within their own community, they must suffer the consequences of their actions. This is evident in the two sources I will be examining which is the film Inherit the Wind, directed by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee debuted in 1960 as well as the Scopes Trial also known as The Monkey Trial that took place in the state of Tennessee on…

The play Inherit The Wind by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence takes place in Hillsboro, a rural settlement where a schoolteacher by the name of Bertram Cates, is charged with violating the Butler Act. The act enforces that if anyone, more specifically, any teacher, who teaches about the creation of mankind, shall reference the Bible; scripts or documents written by Charles Darwin or any other philosopher shouldn’t influence anyone about the foundation of mankind. Consequently, Cates is now…

Have you ever read a book and then watched a movie about it? Is it ever the exact same? No, it is never the same because the movie always has to spruce it up a bit. If the play was exactly like the trial, it would be a documentary. So the play has to put dramatic scenes and funny lines into it to make it more interesting. That is what Inherit the Wind did with the Scopes Trial. The play based itself on the trial but made a lot of changes to it, to make it more interesting. The similarities…

One of the main themes in the play “Inherit the Wind” is a person’s right to think. The freedom of opinion and speech is an issue discussed throughout the trial of Bert Cates and in the story overall. This message is first explicitly brought up by Drummond in the courtroom. Drummond states that he is trying to establish that everyone has the right to think, and he further argues that Cates is being “threatened with fine and imprisonment because he chooses to speak what he thinks.” (II.ii.64)…