Inherit the Wind SUMMARY Inherit the Wind, published by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a dramatized account of an actualized trial called the Scopes "Monkey Trial". The play takes place during the hot July summer, in a small town named Hillsboro. In the first act, the major characters are introduced. Bertram Cates, a schoolteacher in Hillsboro, has taught his kids about Charles Darwin's Origins of the Species even though it's against the law to teach evolution ... attorney for Cates and also a former friend of Brady, comes into town unwanted and unwelcomed. He is described as "A viciou...

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... that states teaching evolution was illegal in public schools. The lawyers were the two most powerful figures in that time. In Inherit the Wind the teacher's name was changed to Bertram Cates, the prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady, the defense attorney Henry Drummond. Brady tries to depict Cates as a person against the Bible and the church, out to poison the mind of children by filling their heads with godless ideas. Drummond simply ... presents the idea that the law is outdated, and the people should be granted the right to think and ... ...

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