Jerome Lawrence

It is difficult to rely on something if you do not know what it is. Then you must gain the truth of relying on one’s self. Self-reliance is demonstrated powerfully in multiple ways in, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, which was put together by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, by demonstrating both the understanding of self and relying on self. The beginning of self-reliance is self. So it only makes sense that to begin the path to self-reliance, you must start with yourself. The first…

non-conformity because he believed in the importance to speak your mind and follow your conscious. He believed you should stay true to yourself no matter what consequence or how anyone feels about it. In the play The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Henry Thoreau's personality was really bold. I had never read about a character who was so out-spoken and did exactly what he wanted. One of the scene's that stood out to me the most was when I learned he went to jail…

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. Castes was soon put on…

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is a well known and very talented movie director. He has directed multiple films, for which he is most known for the film, Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Quentin was named after Quint Asper who was Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. His mother, Connie Mchugh was a nurse and his father, Tony Tarantino was a musician. However, after his birth his mother and birth father separated and Connie…

Inherit the Wind ,which was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a message about what happens when intolerance takes hold amongst the higher power in society. Most of the major characters are based on participants in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which took place when a substitute teacher named John Thomas Scopes taught a class in Tennessee the theory of evolution. He did so purposefully, to be incarcerated with the goal to challenge the law. In this play there are two main sides in the…

A young man sees the look of disgust as his father reads aloud from the newspaper about two men getting married in a town nearby. The young man takes this look and internalizes it creating a single elementary thought, “being gay is wrong.” This young man has just been socialized just as his father was before him, and his father’s father was before both of them. The process continues until, alas, the young man’s daughter reveals that she is a lesbian. The man is perplexed; all of his life he…

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…

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…

The movie “I Am Legend,” a post-apocalyptic science fiction film, directed by Francis Lawrence in 2007, is regarded as one of the most popular modern vampire-like creature films. It is also credited as the main influence to portray vampires as the characters we know nowadays. Of course, it is not the first time that the concept of a ‘living vampire’ is used in the film industry, and this is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend in 1954, which was published after…

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, is a play written for the audience to understand Thoreau's thinking. Most people know Thoreau for his literary classic Walden and his efforts to become the man that Emerson believed all men should be. How ever, many people do not recognize that there is more to Thoreau than it seemed, all shown throughout the acts. A major influence in this show is the effect and impact that nature and self-reliance have on the main…