Inherit The Wind Analysis

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Inherit the Wind is a playwright's play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee that explains in a proverb from the bible- who causes trouble in the house shall inherit nothing. According to the Notes on Inherit the Wind, this play was a response to the threat to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era. Also, the notes states that they took the Scopes trial and change the places and names of the participants of the trials and made the play more action based to watch. In the beginning of the play ( the exposition), Bertram Cates is teaching his science class about evolution and gets arrested in the middle of it, which begins the trial against him and the state. In the middle, the two lawyers Brady and Drummond are …show more content…
God speaks to Brady, and Brady tells the world! Brady, Brady, Brady, Almighty!
(DRUMMOND bows grandly. The crowd laughs.) (Lawrence and Lee 100)
Within this two examples that show plot, neither one of the lawyers gave up in their fight so far. With this in mind, all the characters show how hot this topic is and how each one reacted to it.
Similar to any other writing you always have to have characters, either good or bad. The protagonist is the center character followed by the antagonist which is in the opposition of the protagonist, and then the other minor characters that support either side. In the first place, Bertram Cates to obvious the protagonist because he is the main person the trial is after. Followed by Matthew Brady who is the antagonist, the lawyer for the state against Cates. You can tell how each of these two characters got their “title” by how Brady calls Cates girl Rachel to the stand as a witness:
BRADY
Go on, my dear. Tell us some more. What did he say about the holy state of matrimony? Did he compare it with the breeding of animals? (Lawrence and Lee 79)
RACHEL
No, he didn’t say that-- He didn’t mean that. That’s not what I told you. All he said