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Inherit The Wind By Jerome Lawrence And Robert Lee

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The fictional play, Inherit The Wind, written by Jerome Laurence and Robert Lee is a reenactment of the Scopes trial of 1920 (monkey trail) where John Scopes illegally taught Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a small religious town in Tennessee. The town in the play is called Hillsboro and it is illegal to speak on unholy accounts, thus why Bert was found guilty, but he was only fined $100 because Drummond was right, Bert got to be able to fight for his freedom of speech and thought, that is his legal right.
Henry Drummond, defending Bert Cates, opened up a new avenue of education by trying to broaden the agenda of the scientific explanation of where humans came from, how we are different from animals, and if we came from animals. Thus the trial being called the monkey trail with the theory of humans coming from apes, evolution. This came from Charles Darwin, an evolutionary theorist. …show more content…

Drummond made many comments to Brady showing him his side, “how quickly they can turn. And how painful it can be when you don’t expect it. (He turns) I wonder how it feels to be Almost-President three times—with a skull full of undelivered inauguration speeches.”(97)Bert Cates had been teaching the scientific theory of evolution in his classroom, which in the eyes of orthodox Christains, like Brady shouldn't be taught because of diversity. Drummonds argument is to defend freedom of thought and speech, although he lost, he gained the confidence of knowing that in the court he lost but he actually made a

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