The decade of the 1920’s was a busy grouping of ten years in America. The power of women’s desire to vote won them suffrage while uncertainty sprouted from government actions such as prohibition and especially the Scopes Trial of 1925. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit the Wind is a depiction of this unsettling event that took place in 1925. The four main characters of the play are Bertram Cates, Rachel Brown, Henry Drummond, and Matthew Harrison Brady. The friendships between these four main characters are used to show that friendship is a powerful bond, and how the bonds protected Bertram Cates from a larger punishment in court. In the beginning of the play, friendships between characters are introduced and the audience is shown the strengths of these relationships. Cates and Rachel meet each other, while Cates is in jail after he commits the crime. Rachel is shocked by the way that Cates is responding to the situation and says “We live in Hillsboro, and when the sun goes down, it’s dark. And why do you try to make it different?... Why can’t you be on the right side of things?” (Lawrence and Lee 9). Cates then follows this by saying “Your father’s side” (Lawrence and Lee). Following these statements, the two characters embrace and part. This scene shows the friendship between the two characters, and how they are not in agreement in their positions in this incident but are still friends nonetheless. This positioning proves to be important to Cates’ escape
In the play “Inherit the Wind”, E.K Hornbeck, a newspaper columnist is presented as cynical and insolent. His character represents H. L. Mencken, a newspaper columnist for the Baltimore Sun that covered the Scopes trial.
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind tells the incredible true story of William Kamkwamba and his quest to bring electricity to his poor town in Africa. Although many help him throughout his journey, William is the main character and main protagonist of the book. Throughout the novel, he reflects on his adventures leading up to his creation of a windmill that powers parts of the town. In order to accomplish such a feat, William had to be hardworking, mature, and creative. William exhibits all of these qualities and many more to prove that he is the best thing that happened to Malawi during his lifetime.
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The origin of this novel stems from a time with great attitude changes within the African-American way of life. Tensions between gender specifically had begun to emerge, women, who were thought of as subservient, belonging to the house as well as to their husbands. During the timeframe of this story, women had been beginning to emerge with dignity, grace, and authority. The play takes place in Pittsburgh, during the 1950’s when the gap between genders had been shrinking, as women had been introduced further into society as more than just mothers. To most, this diminishing gap, to most would be a seamless concept, however, to the characters of this play would be a deciding factor for many conflicting scenes. The main characters of this play
Often times when reading, characters will seem as if they've been plucked straight from the real world and thrust into the plot of a story. Inherit the Wind by Robert Lee is a novel adaptation of a play that was originally written in 1955. Inherit the Wind focuses on the predominantly devout Christian town—Hillsboro. Bertram Cates, a school teacher labeled as an "evolutionist," is being prosecuted by a well-known and beloved politician—Matthew Harrison Brady. Consequently, a quick-witted and intelligent lawyer—Henry Drummond—comes to town to defend Cates and "the right to think." After reading Robert Lee's novel adaptation of Inherit the Wind, it was evident Rachel Brown and I possess some similar qualities and traits. For example, neither of us like to go against the popular belief, we try to be open-minded, and we are put under an abundance of pressure from our parents and society.
	Brady and Drummond, two former partners, beginning their legal lives working together. Now each one strives to be superior, confident in their ways and beliefs, trying to out-do the other. Despite a common goal, the two gradually became very different people, as is evident in the play and movie,Inherit the Wind. Throughout the years, as each one fought cases, established a name for themselves, and gained popularity (or notoriety), they kept a careful watch on the other. Learning of the others triumphs, which pushed them to try even harder, become more set in their ways, believing that their heterogeneous beliefs were right, and that if they kept those beliefs the focus of their existence, they could eventually prove themselves
In the allegorical novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys get in a plane crash on a deserted island and it becomes the ultimate race for survival. The boys decided to vote for a chief, but there is discord because everyone doesn't respect his leadership. The events that follow result in two factions which changes the island into a tense battle between opposing groups, that work against each other, and result in tragic consequences. The elements of nature including wind air and humidity reveal the shift between cooperation and fighting. These elements change to reveal the author's message message that a crisis brings out the insignificance of mankind and his or her resourcefulness. Wind, air and humidity change from calm and peaceful which reflect the boy's initial feeling on the island, to stronger winds which reflects the disagreements between the boys , then to powerful thunderstorms storms, rocks crashing and huge gusts of winds that reflects the struggle for life and death . Even though wind, air and humidity don't seem initially seem significant, reading below the surface, these elements of nature provide foreshadowing of further events.
Creationism or Evolutionism? God or Darwin? This is a topic that has been debated for many years. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee dared to search for the long-awaited answer. Lawrence and Lee wrote Inherit the Wind based off of the true events of the Scopes Monkey Trial. The authors used characters, such as Matthew Brady, Henry Drummond, and Reverend Brown, to develop a theme of an individual’s power to change society.
I connected the most with the character E.K Hornbeck. He was a supporting character in the book "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Hornbeck and I have similar personalities and preferences. E.K. Hornbeck is mainly known as a city dweller that is a columnist for the Baltimore Herald. When he enters the town of Hillsboro he makes a strong first impression that he strongly dislikes the town along with the towns people, he sneers politely at everything.
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I think Rachel was looking for the ways for her independence and willing to protect Bert during the trial. Rachel believed that Bert was innocent.
Our core values are built upon freedom. Freedom from tyranny, freedom from control, freedom to choose. A student should have the option to learn whatever it is they desire, whether it be evolution, or creationism, because it is our right to choose what to believe. There was a true story based on an argument where science was not allowed to be taught, but religion was. It correlates to the novel Inherit the Wind. The plot settles in a trial held between two defendants lawyers battling it out of the science versus Evolution. A school teacher named Cates, who got arrested and went to jail because he taught evolution in a science class. I believe that evolution should be taught in science classes and that school teachers being arrested due to
In order to demonstrate it, the battle of Brady and Drummond shows the opposite conception between them. When Drummond inquires Brady’s thought about the time in the first day of the Creation, Brady replies that “I do not think about things that… I do not think about!” (Lawrence 97). Brady chooses not to think to literally accept all the Bible words. It is the way he consolidates his belief but imprisons “his power of mind to reason” (Lawrence 93). Also, at his contemporary time, when Americans were daily fighting for the rights to be free agents and while the right to think was one of the most basic rights of human being, his statement seemed to recoil upon himself in that flowing current. On the other hand, Drummond declares the freedom of thinking in every conversation with others. When Cates is frustrated under the harshly public views and Rachel insists him to admit that he is wrong, Drummond supports Cates by letting Cates choose either quitting or not. He gives Cates the chance to make up his mind. In the trial, he questions Brady the origin of the events in the Bible hence he creates chances for Brady and everyone in the courtroom to think. He states, “I am trying to establish, Your Honor, that Howard or Colonel Brady- or Charles Darwin- or anyone in this courtroom- or you, sir- has the right to think” (Lawrence 71). With his statement, Drummond
The moving play Inherit the Wind written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is filled with many different characters. I have been asked to find a character who I relate to and compare and contrast myself to them. Personally, there isn't just one, but three different characters in this play who I can find similarities and differences with, but I'll just stick with one. Therefore, Rachel Brown, Bert Cates, and Henry Drummond are the three characters who I can relate to the most. Seems how I will be only choosing one, I thought Bert Cates would be the best choice.
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