Inherit The Wind Analysis

“The man who has everything figured out is a fool...it takes a smart fella to say, ‘I don’t know the answer’ ” (Lawrence and Lee 55). This quote was stated by Henry Drummond, a protagonist in the play Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The quote is ironic because Drummond is stating that although it is important to know the truth behind something, it is just as important to know when an individual is wrong. In the play, one learns how the surface of things never truly reveals how they really are. This is evident throughout the anecdote of Golden Dancer, Drummond’s beliefs on religion, and how religion is known to be compared to how Reverend Jeremiah Brown displayed it as.
To begin, by using the story of Golden Dancer

As the Reverend, he was the one to guide people with religion and everyone in the small-town looks up to him. Throughout the play, Reverend Brown was shown as aggressive and demanding with religion. In the beginning of the second act of Inherit the Wind, he was leading the prayer meeting. As it ends, he cursed and casted out Cates as a sinner and later did the same to his own daughter, Rachel Brown. The message that can be understood is that religion is strict or harsh, as well as this is the only way religion is enforced. This is not true because there is always more than just one way religion can be interpreted. While it was not shown in Reverend Brown 's’ character, most religions actually promote and encourage forgiveness and mercy. For instance, in the Bible, it says, “Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger. No more shouting or insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort. Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ” (Ephesians 4:31-32). Reverend Brown was a very religious man who takes his job too seriously and extreme. Verses like Ephesians 4: 31-32, which insist that people be more forgiving, were not emphasised when the Reverend was preaching to the town. The townsfolk were very religious, so the Reverend easily persuaded them to