Character Analysis: Inherit The Wind

Matthew Harrison Brady “Inherit the Wind” is a fictionalized account of the Scope Trial. The character of Matthew Harrison Brady is based on the historical figure of William Jennings Bryan. In the play “Inherit the Wind” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Bertram Cates is behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching evolution. Brady will lead the prosecution, and Henry Drummond will represent the defense. Some may feel that Brady does not care for Cates, and that Brady only wants publicity.

The fight for justice is not always unequivocal or favorable, sometimes justice is given by means that do not seem fair at all. William Styron says in a novel that life “is a search for justice.” It is blatant that throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, female characters are continuously battered with injustices. Hosseini hones into the oppression of women and the fight for women empowerment through the life of one of his main characters, Mariam. Her journey is shown throughout the novel where she struggles to search for and understand justice.

Lord of the Flies is often claimed to be an allegory of modern society. While this is true, Golding’s intentions in writing this novel are much deeper. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies provides an enlightening insight into the true nature of human beings; along with why people refrain from acting upon the evil that resides within them. He presents these ideas through symbolism within the novel and it proves effective in many ways. Through symbolism, Golding can unfold the excellent plot of his novel, while subsequently sharing his ideas on the relationship of mankind and society. Golding uses the beast, the conch shell, and Piggy’s glasses to symbolize the human impulse towards ‘savagery’ and the social constructs put in place to prevent it.

Lord of the Flies is a novel written in 1954 by William Golding. A plane carrying a group of British citizens trying to escape the nuclear war gets shot down and lands on a deserted tropical island. The only survivors are children ranging from the age of six to twelve-year-olds. The younger children are nick named “littluns” and the older children are nick named “biguns”. At first, they celebrate their freedom from the war but then they begin to realize there aren't any adults to supervise them, they don't have food, they don't have shelter, and they are stranded on a deserted tropical island. One of the characters Piggy is classified as smart but is fat chubby and has asthma so he isn't capable of much things. “ “My auntie told me not to

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys suddenly become stranded on an island, all alone, forced to form their own social system. Throughout the novel, William Golding reveals his main character 's strengths and weaknesses in their attempts to lead. The character Piggy demonstrates the benefits and limits of intelligence in maintaining civil order.

All our personalities compare to a character from Lord of the Flies, and I found myself to be an ENFP or an idealist; someone most comparable to Simon. An ENFP or an idealist personality displays characteristics of being extroverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving which. Furthermore, passionately concerned with positive improvement, being kind, warm, sympathetic, distracted and motivated were all trait described in the personality test for the ENFP. Due to our selflessness, how introverted and extroverted we are, and how we can think both logically and emotionally, makes Simon and I most similar.

In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, had many opportunities to learn life lessons but every time his faulty thinking caused him to focus on the problem and not the solution. Whenever Holden looks at situations he negatively overgeneralizes them with a bad attitude rather than learning from it.

The play Inherit the Wind, was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee to inform its readers about the injustice of a law that limited the freedom of an ordinary citizen. This play is based upon actual events that happened to an individual, John Scopes, in Dayton, Tennessee during the 1920's. This famous "Monkey Trial" not only allowed people to begin to accept new theories about the origin of man, but also showed that they did not have to limit themselves in other areas of life.

It is a common experience: a woman dates a man who is rude to everyone except for her. He makes her feel special, but a few months later, he becomes an abusive, controlling boyfriend. Walter Younger from the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, while not an abusive person is a milder example of this phenomenon. He is the father in a large African American family, and lives with his mother, sister, wife, and young son. His father has recently died, and his mother, Lena, receives an enormous check from their life insurance. They need this money, as they live in a small house and need to move to a larger one, but Walter wants to invest the money into opening a liquor store instead. Although the play seems to revolve around him, Walter

Piggy, Ralph, Jack, and Roger were all crucial characters throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding. All these characters made questionable decisions that when combined, contributed to Piggy’s necessary demise. Although some character’s decisions had a greater impact than others, they were all responsible in some way. Piggy’s stubborn behavior, Ralph’s lack of leadership, Jack’s power hungry and irresponsible behavior, and Roger’s unstable mental state all contributed towards Piggy’s passing. All this contributed to Piggy’s death and were necessary to the survival of everyone on the island.

The Play Inherit the Wind is very similar to many different events in history, such as the Scopes trial, or even the McCarthy trials. In the famous Scopes trial or “Monkey trial,” John Scopes was caught teaching evolution to his biology students. Not long before the trial, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution had been published. Darwin’s novel contained a newly formed idea that man was created from gradual evolution. The idea caused an outrage from several Christian religious groups, because it went against the book of Genesis in the Bible. This discontent grew so much that the state of Tennessee passed a law on evolution. This law prohibited the teaching of evolution, with a $500 dollar fine per violation. The Scopes trial led the most famous lawyers of the time to

In the play Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee use a historic event and twist it into a believable fiction narrative that shows the fault of a small southern town. As it is presented, the play was written to be seen as a more meta commentary on the American people, and the trial was supposed to symbolize American thinking as a whole. The authors make clear that the trial is not only against the defendant; it is also striking the people of the setting. The fault displayed in the play's titular town of Hillsboro is that the citizens are quick to lap up the word of the holy men and their holy book, and they are also inclined to automatically deny or ignore anything that could possibly challenge what they have been spoon fed from The Bible. The two characters that

In this small group lesson, I worked with five students on identifying character traits using a story called Wonderful Winter. The goal of the small group comprehension lesson was to help the students prove the character trait using evidence from the text and to make the difference between personality traits and feelings very apparent. The feedback that I received from my cooperating teacher pointed out that throughout my lesson, there were times when I should have said “no” to a student’s response, instead of “not really” or “not quite”. She explained to me that saying phrases such as “not really” may preserve their feelings but it does nothing to aid in their comprehension of a word or concept because they are still holding on to their incorrect

“If wellness is this what in hell's name is sickness?” American singer Amanda Palmer captures what it means to reside in both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in her hit song, “Runs in the Family”. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights puts the ‘dysfunction’ in ‘dysfunctional families’ by using illness to demonstrate family dynamics. In the narrative, the affliction of mental illness is spread to almost all characters as they enter the household of Wuthering Heights, while residents at Thrushcross Grange are afflicted with physical illness, causing the ultimate upheaval of both households.

Time is a continuous item that grows as people do. When one ignores chronological order and replaces it with eternal present, tragedy occurs. Catherine Earnshaw throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, fails to choose between the two men she loves most. Catherine is unable to clear up “her willful confusion of the the two levels of time - chronological present of thrushcross grange and the timeless present of heathcliff and her love” leading to her destruction (Harris 115). Catherines unsuccessful attempt at living in Edgars chronological world while desiring Heathcliff's eternal love simultaneously, leads to her unforgivable sin.