Shea Bridenbeck Inherit the Wind Paper 4/24/12 Inherit the Wind: Henry Drummond One of the most controversial topics still discussed today is the timeline of creation and how humans came about on earth. Did we begin as living organisms, progress to apes and finally evolve into humans like Charles Darwin believed, or was the life of humans more of a Christianity process in which a supreme being of God created us all? The famous book, Inherit the Wind, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee depicts the two points of view through the two well-known attorneys Henry Drummond, the defense attorney, and Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecutor. In the book, Inherit the Wind, and the film, Henry Drummond was the most atheist defense attorney of the century. He was viewed by the town’s people of Hillsboro as “a vicious, godless man” (Lawrence and Lee, 27). They did not want him to defend Bert Cates and be allowed inside their town because they had a hard time grasping the past defense cases in which he agreed to take. They scrutinized him for defending two Chicago murders and allowing the outcome of their trial as not guilty, “you look into his face, and you wonder why God made such a man. And then you know that God didn’t make him, that he is a creature of the Devil, perhaps even the Devil himself” (Lawrence and Lee, 28). While most viewed Henry Drummond as a negative figure on the courtroom, his opponent Matthew Harrison Brady had a different view. He truly believed that Hillsboro should
