Inherit the Wind
...st over the opposing side. They were willing to do anything for him even if it was unfair and unjust to the defense. For example, during the time Drummond was losing all hope of winning the trial, the judge would not do anything to help the defense knowing that it was unjust the whole time. Brady had so many advantages to his side that it would be difficult not to be so arrogant and full of himself. Early in the play, with the way Brady was introduced and described, it would be hard not to like Brady. He was a good, Christian man who would do anything for the sake of the Bible. Drummond, however, by the way the citizens of the town described him, seemed like a man of no integrity who had the reputation of a serial killer. He seemed like he was evil and did not deserve to be alive. The way he was called “a vicious-godless man” made everyone hate him even more. However, as the trial started off, when Drummond started losing hope in all chances of victory, everyone started to give him sympathy. Drummond started to become a kind-hearted, innocent man who was just trying to give justice to his client’s name. He was not the heartless man that everyone believed that he was. When the tides started to turn and Drummond started to win, you could see everyone else watching the trial start to turn to his side. Brady then turned into the “vicious” man that everyone believed Drummond to be. As you know, Inherit the Wind was a play over the trial of beliefs in the Bible’s story of creation versus Darwin’s theory of evolution. Matthew Brady was the prosecuting attorney who solely believed that man came directly from God and evolution never occurred. Drummond, on the other hand, believed in Darwin’s theory of evolution, and felt that it was wrong for his client to be prosecuted for believing in it also. Brady was a man who represented the entire town in which the trial took place, which in a sense also represented the entire United States. Most of the nation agreed in the story of creation along with Brady, and it is also the story the nation agreed with centuries before. Brady symbolizes the Old World beliefs, but Drummond represented the people who agreed with Darwin when the trial took place which was a very few amount. Thus, the beliefs of the New World were symbolized by the infamous attorney Henry Drummond. You could see the way the two men went at it, an...