Inherit the Wind, 2010

"Gimme that old time religion"

"Sound the trumpet,
beat the drum.
Everybody's come to town
To see your competition, monk.
Alive and breathing in the country cooler:
A high-school teacher- wild, untamed!" (18)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg1uXRhic24

How do individual rights and the good of society differ?
"We face a choice between a society where people accept modest sacrifices for a common good or a more contentious society where group selfishly protect their own benefits." (Robert J. Samuelson)






















We as citizens are challenged to view ourselves as members of the same community and, while respecting and valuing the freedom of individuals to pursue their own goals, we still need to recognize and improve those goals which we have in common. The goal of equality.

Evolution vs. Creationism

John T. Scopes was teaching his class about evolution, and was convicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law that prohibited the teaching of anything besides creationism.

Evolution is the

Matthew Harrison Brady - A national political figure who arrives in Hillsboro to lead the prosecution in Cates's trial. A Christian fundamentalist and Nebraska native, Brady defends the literal truth of the Bible against what he labels Cates's big-city agnosticism.

Henry Drummond - A famous lawyer from Chicago whom the Baltimore Herald sends to defend Cates. Drummond, a believer in human progress, argues for freedom of thought.













"Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you have moved so far away from me?
Drummond: All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-- by standing still." (67)
This has a sharp impact on Brady.

Drummond, exposes the obvious contradictions of this viewpoint of the literal truth of the bible, much to Brady's embarrassment.

"This is not so much a literal view of Hillsboro as it is an impression of a sleepy, obscure country town about to be vigorously awakened." (3)

Real Life Stories

Of people who got help!

“Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn. He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.”

Jake is talking about Robert Cohn and how he used boxing for covering up being made fun of for being Jewish and non-masculine.

 

 "The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta." 

This is not a way you want to solve problems. The characters in “The Sun Also Rises” try to escape reality by drinking and going to the fiesta. As you can see, they feel like they had no consequences when they were there, like an alternate world where all their troubles would just go away. This isn’t a way to solve problems because in the long run it just makes them worse. You need to face reality at that moment and be strong about your problems.