Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind Summary The film starts with Bertram Cates behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Rachel Brown, friend and teacher,. also the daughter of the town’s minister. She urges Cates to plead guilty and at the mercy of the court. At this time, lawyers and journalists arrive for the trial to view and spectate. Matthew Harrison Brady leads the prosecution, and arrives to a picnic in his honor. He meets with Reverend Brown, District…

was made of an organism that changed over a period of time. To the current day some people continue to believe that the bible proves how we were created. Others, including myself feel that science evolved us from Apes to humans. In the film Inherit The Wind an entire community thinks that the bible is correct and science is a complete myth. When small town teacher Bertram Cates opens the minds of his students he is brought to trial immediately. Besides a few children from his class all the…

Throughout history there have been many debates about whether or not evolution and the Bible should be taught in public schools. In fact, there was once a court case, the Scopes Trial, in which many issues had arisen and were resolved about this controversy. One of the main issues discussed was a debate on evolutionism being taught in school. Clarence Darrow, an atheist lawyer, asked William Jennings Bryan, a devout and vocal politician and a Christian, a series of questions in regards to what…

The Scopes Trial  John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, TN, beginning around 1924. He is best known for the controversy that he caused over teaching one very touchy subject to his students, Evolution. In 1925, Tennessee passed the Butler Act which made it illegal for any teacher in a public school "to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” John Scopes was not a…

William Kamkwamba from “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind” is quite the peculiar child. Even though he lives in a very poor city and country he is still curious enough to learn about electricity, intelligent enough to understand it’s concepts and determined to harness it himself. Throughout the book William shows many examples of how these traits defined him. Without these traits, Williams journey to becoming a successful engineer would’ve never started. The trait that began Williams journey was…

because it can… In Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind we see many situations in which the manner of thinking of the citizens in the town of Hillsboro is influenced by religion, and numerous of those occasions the influence was not for the best. During a period of time when it was illegal to teach the theory of evolution, the inhabitants of the town seemed to close themselves off to anyone who was…

well-crafted work of literature is multi-faceted. Paired with a good plot, complex characters add to the depth of a story and draw a reader in. In Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the characters of Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond—despite their initial impressions—have more to them than meets the eye. In the beginning of Inherit the Wind, Brady is portrayed as a good Christian man—which he uses to his advantage. Upon Brady’s arrival to Hillsboro, he receives a…

The play, Inherit the Wind, has helped readers realize that “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in” (Asimov). This is clearly shown though the prejudice that Henry Drummond had to face throughout the story. Drummond was to defend Darwin’s Theory in a highly religious town. This exposed Drummond to unreasonable judgement since the town was not open-minded to new opinions. His positive character traits, hidden by the author…

The play Inherit the Wind gives the story of a lawyer, Henry Drummond, who comes to Hillsboro to defend a man, Bert Cates, on trial for teaching evolution. Cates’ lover Rachel Brown is someone who firmly believes in God and her father’s teachings. Throughout her childhood, she grew scared of her father and became a faithful woman. She was taught that ideas of evolution that weren’t in the Bible were wrong. Over the span in which Cates was jailed and his trial, she started to grow and realize the…

External beauty and perfection blind mankind from seeing the truth. The idea of perfection captivates and averts mankind from using reasoning in everyday life. In Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s Inherit the Wind, Golden Dancer represents Matthew Harrison Brady and the deception of external beauty and greatness. Brady deceives the city residents from his weak and unstable self through his external greatness similar to how Golden Dancer deceived Henry Drummond from its fragileness through…