This 1960 movie was based on the play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Even though the story is based on fact, the authors claim that Inherit the Wind is not history. Only a few phrases have been taken from the actual transcript of the trial. To quote the authors, "So Inherit the Wind does not pretend to be journalism. It is theatre. It is not 1925. The stage directions set the time as 'Not too long ago'. It might have been yesterday. It could be tomorrow." The historical
William Henry Drummond is a renowned, successful, and acclaimed lawyer. A reaction to his name could be extremely varied, depending on whom you’d ask in the 1925 world. To the majority of the people in Hillsboro, for example, Drummond is perceived as a “vicious, godless man,” who will undoubtedly lose the trial to the beloved Matthew Harrison Brady. The results however, showed otherwise. Countless impressions of him are changed by the end of the trial. Drummond has many positive character traits
I read Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The book provides a fictional account of the Scopes Trial. The trial is altered and made more dramatic. It was written in order to be political commentary or satire on the McCarthy Trials, which in ongoing at the time Inherit the Wind was written. The story begins with Bertman Cates in jail. He is awaiting trial due to illegally teaching evolution to his students. It then becomes clear that many high-profile people in the town want Cates
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
metaphorical phrase that goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This phrase conveys the idea of not to jump to conclusions about someone and make assumptions about them simply by their appearance because there is much more to that person. In the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the characters are introduced to be perceived in a certain way and it seems as though the characters personality traits are evident. However, this is not the case as one of the themes of the play is that
Throughout history, there have been many examples of governments and societies controlling their citizens. Inherit the Wind, by Robert Edwin Lee, fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial, as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials. This can be seen as the concepts of intellectualism and oppression can be witnessed in both trials. In the Scopes “Monkey” trial, ideas are being oppressed through ignorance towards evolution. In connection with this, people were being persecuted during
Inherit the Wind, a play written by Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee, is one of the greatest and most controversial plays of its time. It was written at a time of scientific revolution to benefit people of the day and in the future, however, people of the day had a hard time accepting new ideas. It is societies unwillingness to change, and accept new ideas that create racism, and hate groups of today. This unwillingness is one of the major themes of this play. This thesis will be further explained
Inherit the Wind is a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It is based upon the monkey trial of 1925. Henry Drummond is the defense attorney for Bertram Cates. While Matthew Harrison Brady is the prosecuting attorney. Cates is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution, rather than the teachings of the holy bible. Rachel Brown is the 22-year-old daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Brown. She is someone who dislikes controversy. Rachel is a fearful character at the beginning of the play
crashes the very essence of that image. As one analyzes the prompt, they will be able to see the flaws and lies that was not expected from its first impression, exposing the truth in everyday people. Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind displays a multiple of characters that changes from a certain view to their true self, noted by the tricking techniques throughout the drama. Of this trial, frauds reveal themselves, creating unavoidable deceptions to the audience, which is easily
Inherit the Wind (1960) is a film directed by Stanley Kramer that is based on the play of the same name that debuted in 1955. The play was not intended to be an exact historical account of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, and so the movie also contains various differences from what actually happened. The film allows the viewer to understand the basic concepts and outcomes of the trial, but there are many inaccurate details which make the trial of Inherit the Wind significantly different
own ideas and to defend civil rights. Two playwrights who lived through the “Red Scare” trials, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, addresses the oppression of the McCarthy trials by a meek character called Bert Cates throughout their play named Inherit the Wind. A nationally recognized lawyer, Henry Drummond, uses his gift of freedom of speech to support Cates. Cates love interest, Rachel Brown, grows intellectually and portrays the change that Lawrence and Lee want to see in Americans. Furthermore
Themes and Symbols: Inherit the Wind As probably the best courtroom dramas of the twentieth century, Inherit the Wind is based on the famous, Scopes Monkey Trial. The play was printed virtually thirty years afterward and takes original authority in varying the true-life elements of the court case. The central conflict of the play is based on the Scopes Monkey Trial itself. Several themes are presented throughout the play, for example when Brady argues for religious values while Drummond argues
The play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert e lee explores both sides of the controversial topic; evolution. Taking place in a small town, a character by the name of Bertram Cates is being put on trial for challenging the towns’ beliefs and teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to a group of school children. This action was considered to be a heinous crime, so the town was forced to bring in two experienced, well known lawyers, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond to bring
As the motivational speaker Rob Liano says, “Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.” Agree or not, but in the novel Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the application of knowledge leads the city of Hillsboro to accept the unprecedented ideas which they quickly oppose due to the conflict with their religious principles. Bertram Cates, a school teacher, is on trial for teaching evolution to his class, and the closely-knit
The play Inherit the Wind has many problems that arise throughout; based off of the Scopes Trial, the play is a battle between creationism and Darwinism. However, even with the abundance of educational, legal, and social issues, the bias in the courtroom was one of the legal issues found in the play, by creating a court that is filled with members who have a clear bias towards one side of the argument, the other side is misjudged and has a lesser chance of winning. At the beginning of the play
The story “Inherit the Wind” holds many themes which are revealed in many ways throughout the story. It is important to know the different themes of a story so there is a better understanding of the book. Appearance vs. reality, the importance of free thought, and man vs. society are few of the major themes that are revealed more than once throughout the story. Appearance vs. reality is shown in “Inherit the Wind” through Brady and Drummond. In the story, Brady is sent to fight against Cates in the
The story, 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 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 due to
There are two stories, written 36 years apart, with very different main themes. The first story is “Inherit the Wind,” a play written in 1955, which is a fictionalized story about the State vs. John Scopes Monkey Trial. In “Inherit the Wind,” the “criminal” is Bertram Cates, who taught his high school students text about evolution. In a world like Hillsboro, where nobody speaks against God or the Bible, this is considered a terrible sin. The second story, The Wretched Stone, a picture book written
In Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind, the play discusses topics such as religion and science and explores the price of new enlightenment and change in the modern society. This story is not new, though, and in a way exemplifies Plato’s Allegory of the Cave written centuries before Inherit the Wind. It also has themes of Doug McGruder’s “Privileged Distress”, where in today’s society the once privileged class is now forced to deal with a change in their way of thought and life and the distress it
The setting of the Scopes Trial and Inherit the Wind have both similarities and differences. The Scopes Trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee (“Tennessee vs. John Scopes,” 1925). Dayton is a town that normally wouldn’t have been found on a typical map. It is small, quiet, and would be considered insignificant if not for the historical event that took place there in the summer of 1925: the Monkey Trial. Likewise, the setting of Inherit the Wind features a sleepy town in the middle of summer that