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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In Inherit The Wind‚ Bertram Cates was arrested for violating the Butler Act. Like John Scopes‚ a football coach and substitute teacher‚ he was also put on trial because of violating the Butler Act on July 10‚ 1925. The Butler Act is a law that prohibits a teacher from teaching evolution other than creationism. The theme of Inherit The Wind is the Importance of Freedom of Thought because everyone has different thoughts and ideas. Without a Freedom of Thought‚ there wouldn’t be any changes at all
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echoed the outrage caused by the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” case‚ as people in both cases were fighting either for or against the right to hold varying opinions. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play Inherit the Wind in response to McCarthyism and based it on the Scopes Trial‚ warning that threats to freedom of thought will continue in the future if such hysteria is repeated. The play follows fictional characters based on the real participants of the trial as Bertram Cates and his lawyer Henry
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Ikram April 18th‚ 2013 Rhetorical Analysis Essay #3 Believe it or not‚ it was once illegal to teach the theory of evolution to children in school. A teacher in Tennessee named John Scopes had violated this law in the 1900s‚ which resulted in the John Scopes trial. This trial marked the shift of the beliefs of Americans from religion to science. Scientific research has been going on for decades and it has‚ for the most part‚ helped improve our lives‚ but it is a very tough field
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Edwin Lee show the reader the turmoil and contemplations that occurred during the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. This trial brought up the conflicts between modern science and Biblical teachings. In his attempt to seek justice‚ Matthew Harrison Brady displayed the characteristics of someone who is egotistical‚ self-righteous‚ and arrogant. Instead of basing the trial on the Bible vs. evolution alone‚ Brady used this trial to better his self-image and “campaign”. As Brady arrives in Hillsboro‚ he is given
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what to believe. Inherit The Wind is a play revolving the Scopes Monkey Trial‚ where a school teacher‚ Bertram Cates‚ taught evolutionism to his students without being allowed. He is then accused and brought to trial where many people come to join in the fight. Brady‚ a lawyer‚ has the job in the play to prosecute this “lawbreaker” while putting up a strong personality. With many obstacles in the play he puts up a hard fight and wins the trial proving Cates guilty. The character of Brady progresses
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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 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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of Genesis. Fundamentalists‚ on the other hand‚ denounced this as blasphemy. These traditionalists took the word of the Bible as exact and literal. Nowhere was the conflict between these two parties more highlighted than in the Scopes Trial in Tennessee. John Scopes‚ a schoolteacher‚ had been arrested for teaching the theory of evolution to his students. He was eventually convicted (but later released on a technicality)‚ demonstrating the tenacious hold that Fundamentalism still had on this country
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the Wind is the epic legal drama‚ written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ of a controversial subject: creationism versus Darwinism. Hillsboro is extremely determined to defend creationism. Though fictional‚ Inherit the Wind is based on the Scopes Trial‚ which occurred in July of 1925 in Dayton‚ Tennessee. The play was published in 1957‚ a period of time where people‚ especially those of Hillsboro‚ the small town in which the play is set‚ were only allowed to teach the theory of creationism; teaching
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