John Scopes Inherit The Wind

In summary, Matthew Harrison Brady had many traits that affected the outcome of the trial. He used words to change the opinions of others, his overconfidence changed his perspective on decision making, and his ignorant behavior gave him a weaker argument in the case. These following characteristics had a large influence on the Judge, the Jury and

When the town hears that Brady will be the prosecuting attorney in the “monkey trial” they are ecstatic because Brady is a well known activist for ideas similar to the people in the town. Brady is prosecuting against what he believes is wrong which is an aid on helping him perform to the best in the trial. Throughout the trials Brady boasts his Christian ideas to the public which is a heavy dosage of Brady being his own person and showing people what he believes in. When Brady says “Did you hear that, my friends? “Old World Monkeys”! According to Mr. Cates, you and I aren’t even descended from good American monkeys!” it shows how he wants everyone to know what he thinks and he thinks everyone should also believe the same things. Brady is the main character and in play ambassador for individuality throughout the play by his out spoken remarks about his faith and beliefs throughout and the fact that he is always standing up for those beliefs makes him important to the main goal of showing the importance of being your own

-The teacher, Cates, is on trial because he was curious about the creation of the world. Bertram Cates read the theory of evolution from his Civic Biology book to his sophomore class. Bertram discovered new information and wanted to express his ideas to the students in the class. (Pg. 8, “I opened it up and read my sophomore science class Chapter 17, Darwin’s Origin of Species. All it says is that man wasn’t just stuck here like a geranium in a flower pot; that living comes from a long miracle, it didn’t just happen in 7 days.”)

The coverage of certain events in media can influence the way people process things. In 1925 a man was put on trial for teaching evolution, in the town of Dayton, Tennessee. In the 1950’s trails for people thought to be communist took place, this was called the “Red Scare Lawrence and Lee wrote a play displaying their anger towards such trials, called Inherit the Wind in this play Dayton becomes Hilsboro, and the man on trial is Bertrem Cates, who is caught teaching Darwinism in school. A newspaper writer named E.K. Hornbeck provides a cynical p=outlook on the trial as well as the town. The defense attorney, Drummond believes in the right to have freedom of speech and thought, while Harrison Brady, a three time presidential candidate prosecutes Cates.

The book I read was Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. It is a play about a teacher named Bertram T. Cates, who had broken a law about teaching the theory of evolution. They have that law because it a town that follows the bible. So they have a big fuss about the situation and a couple of famous lawyers come to town to help with the case. Matthew Harrison Brady was there to help the state and Henry Drummond was there to defend Bertram T. Cates. I believe that Henry Drummond and I are very similar, but also quite different.

Stanley Kramer's film, Inherit the Wind, examines a trial based on the 1925 Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Often referred to as "The Trial of the Century" (Scopes Trial Web Page), the Scopes trial illuminated the controversy between the Christian theory of creation and the more scientific theory of evolution. John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, was arrested for illegally teaching evolutionism to his class. "The meaning of the trial emerged because it was seen as a conflict of social and intellectual values" (Scopes Trial Web Page). Kramer's film dramatizes this conflict between the Christian believers and the evolutionists in "Hillsboro, heavenly Hillsboro, the

One main similarity within the film and real life trial is the conception that this trial would be so incredibly world-renowned that it would, “put the town on the map of this country”.1 Thousands of visitors arriving to view the trial of a century denotes a boost in the economy because with an increase of people, young and old, they require a place to stay and food to eat. The Scopes Trial was no doubt a publicity stunt to stimulate Dayton’s economy. Rappleyea especially knew this would attract businessmen and industries so they would continue to host exciting and staged events in order to keep the trail and town in the news.2 Many began to prepare for the large crowds along with even larger amounts of money that would be circulating the town. It is interesting to believe, “To some extent, every trial is a potential circus, but we rarely set out to make it one. In Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, they did. And they succeeded to an extent unparalleled in American history”. The trial was intentionally planned to embody a circus because it, “became an entertainment extravaganza”.5 Within the film, it is evident they, “downplayed the intellectual and theological issues of the trial while playing up the trial 's circus-like atmosphere”.2 From the moment the praised volunteer prosecutor Matthew Brady entered the town until the final verdict, people viewed this trial as a way to increase reputation. Hillsboro welcomed Brady with an enormous parade because of his high status and their

Larson starts out by describing the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and why he thinks it is such a great piece of scientific literature, and describes how it greatly affected the Christian community because a large part of it went against the Bible. He then explains the ideas behind evolution and natural selection. Larson stated that evolution was “the theory that current living species evolved from preexisting species” (Larson 14). Next, he sets the background for the rest of his book by giving details of how the situation surrounding evolution arose, and how the two lawyers got involved in the case.. He sets the background for the court case by stating that the teaching of evolution was banned in the schools of Dayton, Tennessee and that John Scopes was being prosecuted for teaching it to the class he was substituting.

The case opened up in Dover, Pennsylvania on October 19, 2004. Eleven parents argued between teaching evolution or not to, or to use the book “Of Pandas and People” inside of schools, but since Darwin’s theory is just a theory is was continued to be taught in schools.

Inherit the Wind Legal Analysis Brief – Aakriti Gera Inherit the wind is a 1960 movies directed by Stanley Kramer. The movie follows the story about of two lawyers who argue the case for and against, respectively, about a case where a science teacher is accused of crime of teaching evolution. The “Monkey Trial” which takes places in 1925 has placed a high school teacher on trial for violation of a state law. The law states that teaching any scientific material; in this case, the Darwin’s theory of evolution was prohibited.

In the ancient Book of Proverbs, it is written “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and fool shall be servant to the wise of heart” (Proverbs 11:29 KJV) In the 1950’s when creative artists, musicians, actors and other public figures were under censorship and blackballing do to demagogues like Senator McCarthy during the communist-craze red scare of the time, authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee titled their play after this passage of the bible to warn their audience of a similar face in a demagogues of an earlier time, fictionalized as William Harrison Brady and his league of anti-evolutionist in the 1920’s. Bertram Cates, a school biology teacher is put on trial for teaching the Evolution story instead of the Creation

The body of Scripture within John’s Gospel is known as a “spiritual Gospel” has moved countless hearts and had a profound impact bringing many closer to Christ. There is a separation between history and theology. The “spiritual” gospel is taken as nonhistorical, however, through his narrative the evangelist uses eyewitness language to testify to these events making John grounded firmly in actual historical events. For example, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory . . .” With this separation between history and theology, the strong criticisms of John’s historical reliability has moved the book closer to myth and legend.

Science and religion continue and will continue to express opposition to each other. People have been trying to disprove one or the other for decades and when one teacher from Tennessee decides to teach the history of human life, it is not well received. In March 1925 a law is passed in Tennessee named the “Butler Act,” which prohibited teachers from teaching about evolution in any state funded school. John Scopes, a teacher in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, taught a lesson to his students about evolution months after the state passed the Butler Act. Although the Scopes Trial provided a precedent for the clash of traditionalistic and modernistic thinking it created a paradigm shift in the traditional structure of the school and education system.

Furthermore, a character by the name of Bertram Cates, who was imprisoned for teaching his sophomore class chapter 17 of Darwin’s Origin of Species . His case takes most of the plot which revolves around the Naturalistic v. Evolutionist debate, but beneath that is a hidden theme of censorship. It is clearly seen at the beginning

The John Scopes Trial is an example of how one man wanted to be more modern and teach something new to younger generations. A high school biology teacher, John Scopes, was put on trial for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Tennessee public school. It was a modernist idea, teaching something new, that at the time, Tennessee had a state law that made it illegal to teach the theory in any state funded school. Traditionalists at the time feared that the bible teachings would then be forgotten if Scopes won the trial. He ended up losing. Scopes and other modernists believed that teaching evolution in schools showed the public another perspective of the world through science rather than through religion. Traditionalists were not in favor of immigration during the 1920s, so they restricted it. Nativists in the 1920s argued that new immigrants were threatening American political cultural and religious traditions, and that new immigrants were taking the jobs away from native born Americans. They had the American Dream, which is “the ideal that every U.S.