Henry Drummond is an acclaimed criminal-defense lawyer and recognized agnostic, so how could a man such as this respect and appreciate the life of the fundamentalist Christian Matthew Harrison Brady? Throughout the play Inherit the Wind Drummond demonstrates that though his opinions are much different than Brady and many of the townspeople of Hillsboro when it comes to religion, he is able and willing to respect these people’s values and beliefs. After being told of Brady’s death, Drummond’s respect for the man only seems to intensify. Despite Drummond and Brady’s evident past concerning both their old friendship and contrasting views on religion, Drummond still has a fair amount of respect for Brady, and though this does not affect the trial, it does affect the play.
In Brady’s death, it becomes apparent how important Brady was in Drummond’s life, proven with much of what he says, but one line more than the rest. As E.K. Hornbeck picks fun at Brady after his passing, Drummond defends his old friend, “But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.” (114). What Drummond means to say could be interpreted in many different ways, the first, and probably least likely, considering Drummond’s beliefs, could be Brady’s presidential career, or rather lack of. Perhaps Drummond assumes that Brady thought that with power came the ability to become closer with God. Brady had run for president three consecutive times, and it becomes clear how insane this makes Brady by looking at what he was thinking of in his dying moments,
BRADY
(As he is carried out; in a strange, unreal voice)
Mr. Chief Justice, Citizens of these United States, During my term in the White House, I pledge to carry out my program for th...
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...he courtroom, it would have been much more confusing for the reader and audience. In spite of Drummond and Brady’s complicated history, neither become unprofessional and bring up the matter in the courtroom or let it interfere much with the play.
Drummond still has much respect for Brady as a thinking man despite their complicated background. With Brady’s death, Drummond comes to highly value the life of Matthew Harrison Brady. The reader or audience can see what Henry Drummond means when saying that Brady became lost because “he was looking for God too high up and too far away” by looking at both Brady and Drummond’s beliefs. Though their history is not the smoothest, neither man allows it to enter the courtroom. Inherit the Wind is an amazing play and it’s characters are well developed full of good opinions and strong personalities.
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...ted an unfixable rift between them that Hawthorne always regretted. God was another a big part of his life, so much so that the main ideas of his religion weaved their way into his writing. He wrote of ministers, good men, and a man who tried to play God; moreover, not only did he write of these men, but he showed their flaws and how no one is perfect. He addressed what God already knew because God himself is perfect in the ways he forgives everyone and allows them to redeem themselves even after they’ve sinned. No matter what anyone believes in for a religion that religion is very important to them, and even if they do not have a religion, the fact that they do not have a religion is very important to them. Everything they do is more or less in the name of what they believe in. Their relationships with their family takes precedent over anything else in their lives.
Lee, never fooled anyone. He may have seemed strong in the beginning but he no substance under the shell. Such a false front can be compared to water behind an earthen dam. It may hold some water for a time but once the water finds a weak point, the whole structure comes crashing down along with the fury of all the water behind it. Within brady, the water represents the gooey inner core of his personality. Once he loses his composure in front of his once adoring audience the entire fluid of his persona comes crashing out. The only strength of Matthew Harrison Brady is his power in deliveringh his ideas. As in the earthen dam example, the townspeople represent the city protected from the water by the dam. Once the dam breaks, all the townspeople below get wet and are shaken to their foundations. Matthew Harrison Brady, without a doubt, deserves no sympathy. One example of Brady’s overly self-confidence would be "No…I believe we should welcome Henry Drummond." (Pg. 25). Ha! What a shock he is in for. His own "high and mighty" thinking is going to lead to his downfall. Even Brady is taken a tad aback by the news that Drummond will be joining the trial "Brady: (pale) Drummond?" (Pg. 25) While he basks in his loving audience of townspeople, he will yet be pulled down from his high throne to be questioned and scorned. While the town feels much stri...
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the winner (though he knew that, in reality, Drummond had been the one who truly emerged victorious from this brawl of words and law), he fought to regain his once loyal group of admirers, as he watched many of them walking out of the courtroom door, their backs turned upon him. He screamed over the din, trying to regain something, anything, he once had. And all this only took from him the one thing he still had left... the steady beating of a human heart. And Drummond, Bible and Darwin in hand, was the only one of the two extremely different ex-partners to walk out of the courtroom that day.
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