Jerome Lawrence

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…

In Emerson's maxim "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," Emerson says that one's own wit and mindset is the most sacred and important part of a person. In the play "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee show that one's own mind is the most powerful tools one has access to. Power is the ability to change one's perception of the world around them, and this includes changing someone else's perception. In "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," Henry…

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…

To be close-minded means to have or show a rigid opinion or a narrow outlook. The play “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee portrays themes that show how and why the people of Hillsboro are close-minded. The three main themes of this play are the triumph of knowledge and thought over ignorance, the right to think, and progress and thought versus standing still. These three themes allow the reader to understand the reason why the people of Hillsboro have fixed opinions and how…

Bode, Rita. "They … Should Be Out of It: The Women of Heart of Darkness." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 26.1 (1994): 20-34. Rpt. in Short Story Criticism. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Vol. 69. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 29 Feb. 2016. Rita Bode Looks at Heart of Darkness from a female role and mentions that women in the novel are just as important as the men. The men have their own little groups in which they rely on and so do the woman in an equal manner,…

presenting different ideas on the creation of mankind. Evolution and religion both presented ways mankind could have been created, however, a compromise couldn’t be made between the two due to their radically different natures. In Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Bert Cates, a science teacher, is on trial for teaching evolution in the highly religious town of Hillsboro. Henry Drummond, a famous lawyer from Chicago, is sent to defend Cates in his trial. Through his…

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…

Martin Martin is an American sitcom that aired for five seasons on Fox from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997. Reflecting the rising popularity of the Fox network throughout the 1990s. Set in Detroit, the series stars Martin Lawrence in the role of Martin Payne, a jockey with a girlfriend named Gina Waters. As the series progressed, plotlines saw Martin eventually move on to become the host of the talk show Word on the Street, which aired on the small Detroit public-access television station…

conformist. The movie Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, is the story of an English teacher named John Keating, who teaches his students to question authority and to be their own man. The play The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, written by Jerome Lawrence, describes how Henry Thoreau stood up to the government by refusing to pay taxes. Creating his own work called “from Walden” Thoreau writes about stepping away from society and journeying into the woods to get a new view on life. The…

Truman’s eight years in the Oval Office, or the beginning of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s two-terms, the political pendulum in the United States violently swung back towards conservatism. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, and in Inherit The Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, fear is the driving force of prejudice. Respected political philosopher Thomas Paine made the claim, “Belief in a cruel God, makes a cruel man.” Contemporary debates that criticised the shortcomings of American…