Inherit the Wind

To Kill a Mockingbird and Inherit the Wind are two vastly different forms of literature, focusing on different topics, characters, and morals. Yet there is a similar theme within these stories that they share. Through various characters and traits, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee and Harper Lee each demonstrate the necessity, as well as, the importance of change and growth through their characters. Scout, only a child throughout the To Kill a Mockingbird, doesn’t change but grows into her…

Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is classified as historical non-fiction. This dramatic play features two well-known lawyers, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond who are both summoned into the little town of Hillsboro for a young man named Bertram Cates. Bertram Cates, a school teacher was caught teaching evolution to his students which violated the Butler Act. Matthew Harrison Brady was against evolution, but Henry Drummond had opposite views. Throughout the…

The classic 1960’s Stanley Kramer-directed cinema, “Inherit the Wind”, idealizes the 1925 famous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The Scopes Monkey Trial was a court case about whether emerging scientific theories were allowed to be taught in the public classroom if the theories infringe the traditional religious beliefs. The overall notion in this fictional portrayal of the Scopes Monkey Trial was defending an individual’s right to think and express their own thoughts. In the film,…

time, the human race has opened their mind to incredible ideas, many of which are widely believed today. While media and religion influence many ideas, some people who think differently than the rest of society bring other ideas to light. In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the ideas of thinking for oneself are introduced to a small town in Tennessee. People will go to extreme measures to prevent anyone from believing new ideas because of interference with their religion.…

nherit the wind Do you know what inherit the wind means? With this answer comes one more question, in the play Inherit The Wind who inherited the wind the worst? Inherit the wind means the same as the saying what comes around goes around. In the play people had bad things happen to them which is inheriting the wind. Some examples are the school teacher lost his job and was put on trial for teaching evolution, and the school teachers girlfriend got cursed by her own father. Even though these…

Sumaiya Chaudhry 1. According to Inherit the Wind, what was the Scopes trial about? According to Inherit the Wind, the Scopes trial was about the Scopes “Monkey” Trial that took place in 1925. The authors of the play, Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence, wrote of the fictional account to teach of the conviction of Scope when he taught the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin to a high school class, even though it was not allowed due to Tennessee state law. The play succeeded in showing the…

literature through novels and plays. Inherit the Wind is a play in which conflicts help drive through and carry on the plot. These conflicts stem from various issues, mainly between the difference in mindsets and past relationships. However, this play addresses society’s three main conflicts; person versus person, person versus self, and person versus society through the use of characters and motifs. These conflicts are prevalent throughout the play, Inherit the Wind, from internal conflicts of…

In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, we follow the trial of Bertram Cates; a man accused of violating a law that states that evolution cannot be taught in school. Cates is defended by Henry Drummond and the prosecuting attorney is Matthew Harrison Brady. This work can be compared to the real life trial of John Thomas Scopes in 1925, where Scopes was accused of the same crime. This play has many underlying themes, but only one principle theme. The principle theme appears to…

One example of censorship or challenging is in the play Inherit the Wind by: Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. In the play Bertram Cates, a high school biology teacher in a small town named Hillsboro; who during one of his classes started teaching from an evolution textbook which was strictly against the law.…

The last scene of Inherit the Wind concludes with Drummond lifting both the Bible and Darwin’s Origin of Species only to slam the two together and lock them away in his briefcase side by side. Drummond taking both books fulfills the message of the importance of freedom of thought. Humanity will never know the how the universe began, nor how mankind actually came to be, however theories such as creationism and evolution allow humanity an answer. Throughout the play, Drummond defends Cates for…