Similarities Between Inherit The Wind And Robert E. Lee

Whether you are a believer in the Bible, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, or both. Inherit the Wind is a play that expands on the importance of being able to accept both in society. Bertram Cates was a teacher of Hillsboro, Tennessee, who was arrested for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to his biology class. Anything that is said against the creation of man and the Bible was considered a crime. The prosecutor of the case was Matthew Harrison Brady, a beloved politician and religion enthusiast. Mr. Brady had a variety of characteristics, positive and negative ones, which greatly influenced the outcome of the case. He can efficiently manipulate and influence the opinions of others, he was overconfident, and ignorant. Despite these inferior

No matter how much something can differ some characteristics are shared. As strange as it sounds it’s very true, both Grant and Lee are two different yet similar people. As these two fights for what they believe in, though their beliefs are different they share some qualities. Ulysses S. Grant wanted the nation to expand and look forward towards the future. Robert E. Lee thought that an old aristocratic way of life was the better choice and that it can survive and dominant in American life.

Once Brown is deep into the forest, he is surrounded by people from his town acting wicked and sinful, people who he had always assumed were noble and righteous. As he is led to the altar to be received into this association of evil, he is joined by his wife, Faith. Brown cannot believe his religious and heavenly wife is there. She represents what is good to him, and he cries to her to look heavenward and save herself. But

Rachel Brown, a dynamic character in Inherit the Wind, is transformed by her experiences and actions. For example, at the beginning of the book Rachel asks, “Why can't you be on the right side of things?” to which Cates replies, “Your father's side”(Inherit the Wind 9). Rachel is against any thoughts defying her father. She refuses to even take a second glance at them. Rachel and Cates are very good friends and might even be beyond friends, but when it comes to opposing her father she will not stand up for him. On the other hand, as the book's end draws nearer, Rachel yells out, “No! No, Father. Don’t pray to destroy Bert!” (Inherit the Wind 66). In the beginning of the story Rachel is invested in her fater 100%. She follows in his footsteps

There have been many novels over the years that have sparked conversations about human rights. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Night by Elie Wiesel are two novels that have done just that. Night depicts a firsthand account of the horrors the Jewish people faced during the Holocaust. A similar story is told in To Kill a Mockingbird with the plights of African Americans in the south. Although these novels take place over during different decades and to completely different groups of people, they share similar themes of prejudice, hope, and a loss of innocence.

In the end of the Civil War. We will consider Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant to all be heroes. The two generals will earn a great reputation and will go down as one of the best generals for the years to come. These two changed, todays American History and how we can know better understand how the war actually came about. We know that these two made life decisions out on the battle field. We know that the both of them gave everything they had for their homeland. Though we know that their choices would represent each other (Eisenburg).

Although Generals Lee and Grant came from very different backgrounds and possessed different personalities, they actually shared a few similarities.

In Inherit The Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is about a big trial in a small town, and a controversial Creation versus Evolution debate. There are many characters with flamboyant and powerful personalities. Among them are: Matthew Harrison Brady, and Henry Drummond. Although all of these influential people are powerful, not all of them have the same amount of power, not only over other people, but over themselves as well.

family. He was a waster, with no thought for their welfare. A man with no

As a lawyer, Drummond seeks an unbiased court, but Hillsboro’s religious fervor stands resolute in the face of intellectual curiosity. As Drummond demonstrates to the court, “An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral” (Lawrence and Lee 2.1.59) that the towns’ oppressive interpretation of the Bible has utterly destroyed, leaving only an emptiness in its wake. “I was afraid of what I might think - so it seemed safer not to think at all” (2.2.77), Rachel ultimately admits to Drummond and Bert. Like Drummond, Rachel does not yet know but she now has the power to think, in which, “there is more sanctity than in all [the] shouted … ‘Hosannas!’” (2.1.59).

It is fascinating how two completely different books played a huge role in Inherit the Wind. The two books discussed in controversy were the Bible and Dawin’s Origin of Species. Right before the end of the play, Drummond holds both of these books. He weighs the Bible and Origin of Species as if his hands were scales, balancing them. Drummond ends up taking both books with them as he leaves. The significance of this last gesture is to show that the Bible and Darwin’s Origin of Species coincide with each other despite their contradictories. These two books played a huge role in the court trial, as the topic of evolution was being discussed. The argument of whether or not teaching the theory of evolution is considered an evil leads to the discussion

At the end of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other leaders wanted to continue the fights as a guerrilla war, but most of the Confederate generals opposed them, including Robert E. Lee who considered that course of action to be dishonorable.

The lack of defiance against premeditated ideas in Hillsboro created a uniform group fighting for beliefs beyond their conception. Cast as a sole defender of evolution and as “standing up” against the conformity of jury members “run through a meat-grinder,” Bertram Cates spurred questions about long-standing truths of creation (Lawrence

Challenges for morals were very high in the movie, especially for dear young Rachel. She believed her morals were just like her father’s the priest of the town but wanted to help her lover, Cates, despite his opposite beliefs. She admits in the movie that she fears her father, later in the film he damns her to hell for associating with Cates. She fears if Cates doesn’t follow everyone else's beliefs she’ll lose him, so she tells him to basically follow the townspeople like a good little sheep so they don’t get more in trouble. Through the rest of the movie, she battles herself of what she believes in almost losing it. At the end, she comes to grasp herself and figures out what she wants. She became a stronger person now that she knows her own morals letting go of her fear of her cursing damnation father. She finally finds what her own morals are not what other’s want her to believe in as she stands with her lover proud.

As soon as I found time, I got reading, exploring the arguments for and against evolution that Bill Nye, my childhood idol was seeing. As each chapter passed I grew more skeptical as to what was correct; I thought evolution was a factual science? I soon asked my mom what she believed about the controversy and got an answer that made perfect sense to me, but that I had never heard before. She said that she “sees the bible as a guide to life and how the earth was made, that evolution is a valid science, but God guided it and altered it as necessary.” This was when I knew that I wanted to explore the debate further, and the assignment of this paper, is the perfect opportunity.