Inherit The Wind is a play crafted by Lawrence & Lee that is a fictionalized historical retelling that takes its audience to the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. The play ruminates on Fundamentalism in religion versus The Right to Think. Inherit The Wind stands as one of the most intellectual and acknowledged plays in literature, while the movie also was critically acclaimed and bagged 4 Oscar nominations and 3 wins. As authors Lawrence and Lee enthrall their audience with remarkable dialogues, stupendous characters and awe-inspiring events makes the play what it is.

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The biggest legal war is raged when a high school teacher Bertram Cates is locked behind the bars, merely for teaching the The Darwin's Theory of Evolution that was banned and gravely protested by the people of the town Hillsboro. Three time contender for the presidency Matt Brady and a shrewd lawyer Henry Drummond conduct the courtroom battle of Outdated Religion versus Modern Science. The trial becomes a huge show and eventually has the entire town amalgamated in the fight for the two most contradicting views. Stupefying revelations are made and stories unveiled keeps the audience nerve held and makes the play a suspenseful one!

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The characters in the play have their own influence on the locals of the town and their minds. Matthew Brady and Drummond were both populists and stood by their own views. While Brady the pompous politician was a religious cleric and strongly adhered to the Bible in all terms of living, Mr Drummond had credence in the Right to Think, Reason and in non-conformity to communist conducts by fundamentalists. As presumed towards the end of the play Brady sure does have triumph over the case but Drummond nevertheless leaves the town as an eminent entity as he was fortunate in spreading his belief that if God has given us the brain to reason, then we should think and have the right to think, in a town with locals controlled by clerics!

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