Inherit the Wind
The word protagonist can be classified with such terms as hero, “good guy”, and the lead role. On the other hand, the word antagonist is utilized to define villainous and heinous characters. In the 1955 classic play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind, many characters can be categorized as either. Inherit the Wind was a parody of the Great Monkey Trial of 1925, in which the state of Tennessee opposed schoolteacher John Scopes in a controversy over the theory of evolution in court. In this particular play, Bert Cates, symbolically portraying Scopes, is brought to trial for teaching evolution in the classroom, which was highly inappropriate and unthinkable at the time. In all, he was brought to trial for his beliefs, which is somewhat indecorous in itself. The man who opposed him, the prosecuting attorney, Matthew Harrison Brady (equivalent of the real prosecuting attorney in the Scopes trial, William Jennings Bryan), was a strong believer in the Bible, and concludes that Bert Cates is a sinner who is an evil-lutionist, as he unwittingly called them. Bert Cates is a non-conformist believer terribly misunderstood by his unpopular beliefs, which alienated him from th
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Approximate Word count = 1147
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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