Cynical Journalist Inherit the Wind is an intense drama written by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence based on the John Scopes trial of 1925. In this story‚ Bert Cates is put on trial for going against the Tennessee law prohibiting the Evolutionary theory of the creation of mankind being taught in schools. With the trial being held in Hillsboro‚ most of the people at the event were against Bert Cates with it being so unorthodox. Some people though‚ shared Bert Cates’s logic. E.K. Hornbeck‚ a mid-thirty
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Inherit the Wind‚ based on the famous "Scopes Monkey Trial" in the small town Dayton‚ Tennessee‚ was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The play was not intended to depict the actual history or the proceedings in the Scopes’ trial but it was used as a vehicle for exploring social anxiety and ant-intellectualism that existed in the Americas during the1950s. Lawrence and Lee wrote the play as a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-Communist hysteria of the
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Inherit the wind and the teaching of Evolution The TV movie‚ Inherit the wind‚ was made to portray the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial." The original 1960 version of this movie have been shown in classrooms across the nation‚ and is said to be historical. It has influenced many people against evolution. From just seeing the movie‚ anyone can conclude that religious fundamentalist are unreasonable‚ while evolutionist are rational thinkers. In the discussion below‚ several parts of the movie are compared
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Inherit the Wind Inherit the Wind is based on the John Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. This was based on whether or not fundamentalism or creationism should be taught in schools. The title Inherit the Wind is an allusion to the Bible verse ‚ "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart." The allusion to this verse has several applications in the play. In Act 2‚ Scene 1‚ Reverend Brown "troubleth his own house" by isolating his daughter
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Inherit the Wind Inherit the wind takes place in July in a rural town called Hillsboro. The play describes itself saying that it takes place in the not so distant past; however the play was written based on the famous scopes trial in 1925 so it may have been set around that era. The place take about a week from the time we meet the protagonist Bertram Cates until his sentence is read in court. The story is written in third person‚ because it is a play and is not inside the mind of one specific
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Science vs. Religion Inherit the wind is the movie about the Scopes trial which took place in 1925 in Dayton‚ Tennessee. The Scopes trial was between the Christian belief of creation and Darwin’s theory of evolution. A school teacher named Bertram Cates was arrested from the high school where he was teaching the Darwin’s theory of evolution. This was because at that time of period it was against the law to teach about human creation unless it was from the Bible.
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Inherit the Wind is a play about the battle between scientific and religious beliefs‚ and the restrictions upon freedom of thought. The themes presented in Inherit the Wind are timeless‚ and could have taken place a century ago‚ could be taking place today‚ and could take place in twenty years. In order to illustrate the timelessness of the play‚ the country-side surroundings and backgrounds are depicted in a modern setting. This also reinforces the fact that these themes are not obsolete and part
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The authors‚ Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s‚ main purpose through Inherit the Wind is proving that humans hold the right to think. Henry Drummond is vital in this discovery because of his firm belief that one should hold this right. Drummond’s hero archetype is the cause for his strong feelings‚ and he succeeds when convincing the audience of his beliefs by revealing the contradictions underlying his witnesses’ inherited religious beliefs. Henry Drummond arrives in Hillsboro as an atheist
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In Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s tense drama‚ "Inherit the Wind"‚ three strong characters express powerful opinions: Bertrum Cates ‚ Henry Drummond‚ and Mathew Harrison Brady. First‚ Bert Cates‚ the defendant‚ is charged with teaching "Darwinism" to his sophomore class . Second‚ Henry Drummond‚ the defense attorney for Cates‚ displays his beliefs of the right to think. third‚ Mathew Harrison Brady‚ the "big-shot" prosecuting attorney‚ illustrates his bigotry of creationism. To conclude‚ these
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Inherit the wind Written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ the play Inherit the Wind is a fictitious spin off of the historical Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925‚ which debated the concept of evolutionism vs. creationism and‚ in general‚ a person’s right to think. Brady and Drummond‚ two lawyers appointed to Bertram Cates’ trial are both powerful characters‚ different yet they portray many similarities through their behaviour. Demonstrated through various personal flaws‚ strengths‚ and their own
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