Scopes Monkey Trial Sparknotes

Each person’s thoughts make them for who they are. “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world” (Buddha). Bertram Cates had his own thought from everybody else. His thoughts made him for who he was and was the cause of the trial. The Scopes Monkey Trial was when a teacher, Bertram Cates, teaches the theory of evolution illegally in a town of creationist. Bertram Cates wasn’t allowed to teach evolution because it was only a theory then. Henry Drummond was Bertram Cates lawyer, free of charge because Henry Drummond believed that everyone had the right to think. He believed that this was important because for people could be diverse. He also believed people should have the right to think

Henry Drummond was a guy that nobody liked until the end because Matthew Harrison Brady influenced the people to believe was he believes. Brady was a creationist and only wanted the people to think what he thought. Brady was the lawyer of the town because he was fighting for the godly way of life. Brady ended winning the case because the jury was filled with creationists. The book changes some of the scenes and the character names. Henry Drummond’s real name is Clarence Darrow. Matthew Harrison Brady’s real name is William Jennings Bryan. Bertram Cates’s name is John Scopes. In the play, Inherit the Wind, by Jerome and Robert E. Lee, Henry Drummond fights for what he believes in because he is influential and caring towards the people of the town in the

Lee, is passionate to care for other people’s freedom of decision because he didn’t get that chance. During the trial, Henry Drummond mentions that people are being influenced by the town because the town makes them believe they don’t have a choice. Henry Drummond includes that when there is a sign saying “Read Your Bible” people are being influenced by the sign. When everybody is worshipping one decision, then everyone else will follow along. The town doesn’t give the people options. Henry Drummond is trying to give that freedom of choice to them because he had to fight for his own at a time. He doesn't want the people to go through what he went through. He will support Bertram Cates through the trial to give the people an example of it looks like when someone makes their own decision. Henry Drummond shows he is fair because he wants to be equal with the people that choose to be a creationist by stating, “It’s bad enough that everybody in this town has to walk underneath a banner that says, ‘Read Your Bible!’ Your Honor, I want that sign taken down! Or else I want another one put up-- just as big, just as big letters-- saying ‘Read Your Darwin!’” (Lawrence and Lee 48). Henry Drummond doesn’t wanted anyone being influenced on one decision and rather be offered to many options and should have a fair chance to choose whatever the person wants. Matthew Harrison Brady is the main issue to this problem because he doesn’t