Earlier in the play, the mayor of the city identified Rev. Brown as the spiritual leader of the community. Since this is a fictitious character, the authors depict him as they please. Instead, the authors introduce Rev.
Jeremiah Brown as a mean—spirited man who calls down Hell-fire on his own daughter. Bryan, always the fanatic, loses his self—control and becomes cruel and merciless in his questioning of the frightened young lady.
The Facts: No women participated in the trial. Bryan was courteous at all times in his handling of witnesses, as the trial transcript reveals. Darrow, on the other hand, was at times condescending and contemptuous in his treatment of witnesses, jurists, opposing lawyers and even the judge. Darrow was, in fact, cited for contempt of court for repeatedly interrupting and insulting Judge Raulston.
The Facts: Nothing was discussed about sex in the trial. Nor does the Bible teach that the original sin was sexual in nature. After court is adjourned, the spectators begin to leave while Bryan continues to beat the air with clenched fists. The Facts: Bryan never went into a frenzy, nor did he recite the books of the Bible. This was just another attempt to depict Bryan as a raving religious lunatic.
Where the issues are so titanic, the court must mete out more drastic punishment. Bryan was not the least concerned about the fine, nor was anyone else.
The Play: The play builds to a noisy and chaotic climax as Bryan loses all sense of dignity and reason and goes into an incoherent tirade to read his concluding statement. Finally, overcome by religious zeal, Bryan mindlessly continues with his closing remarks, and collapses on the courtroom floor. As he is carried out, in a strange, unreal voice, he begins what appears to be an inaugural speech as the new President of the United States.
Minutes later, his death is announced. The Facts: Neither Bryan nor Darrow attempted to give the customary closing argument to the jury. Bryan had put great effort into preparing his closing statement.
This manoeuvre by Darrow prevented Bryan from giving his well-supported scientific and religious argument against the theory of evolution. Bryan was anxious that the text of his speech be made available to the public, and made provision for its publication only one hour before his death. Finally, Bryan did not die in the courthouse in a raving frenzy. He died in his sleep at the age of 65 five days after the trial.
His doctors had urged him, a diabetic, to cut his heavy workload. Insulin treatment was still in its early years. There is considerable evidence that the play and film are not simply inaccurate, but rather are highly biased in their intent.
The historical inaccuracies are systematic and of a kind that presents a consistent bias of slanderous proportions against people who believe the Biblical account of creation. On the other hand, those critical of the miracles of the Bible are portrayed as eminently reasonable people who must suffer abuse, threats and ignorance from fundamentalist Christians.
The evidence suggests that the inaccuracies in the play and film Inherit The Wind are substantive, intentional and systematic. Christians, and particularly William Jennings Bryan, are consistently lampooned throughout the play, while sceptics and agnostics are portrayed as intelligent, kindly, and even heroic. The actress, 33, says portion control has played a big role in her fitness revamp.
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Atlanta Black Star. Entertainment Women's Health. The Daily Beast. Celebrity People. Politics The Daily Beast. Bryan: It is not an opinion. It is a literal fact, which the good bishop arrived at through careful computation of the ages of the prophets as set down in the Old Testament. In fact he determined that the Lord began the creation on the 23rd of October in the year 4, B. Here is the actual exchange from the trial transcript, in which Darrow is the one who raises the subject.
At this point, they have been discussing the 4, date, and Darrow stumbles by suggesting that a 4, creation would make the Earth "4," years old:. At the actual trial, Clarence Darrow made several attempts to get Bryan to endorse the 4, B. In the play, it is Bryan who brings up the subject and dives in, while Darrow gets to play fair-minded, suggesting that 4, dating is merely someone's "opinion.
Darrow "Drummond" : I don't suppose you've memorized many passages from the "Origin of Species"? Darrow: Then how in perdition do you have the gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don't know anything about? In fact, Bryan had read "On the Origin of Species" some 20 years before the Scopes trial and had engaged in a running debate about the book with Henry Fairfield Osborn, then president of the American Museum of Natural History and roughly the Carl Sagan of his day.
By pretending that Bryan was attacking something he refused to read, "Inherit the Wind" makes it seem that anyone who disagrees with Darwin must be willfully uninformed. Alteration of history in "Inherit the Wind" reaches the point of outright duplicity in Bryan's two final scenes, in which he is portrayed as transformed into a demented maniac. The first such scene comes at the end of the Darrow-Bryan courtroom confrontation.
At the actual trial, the judge, sensing the bantering between the two was going nowhere, simply adjourned court till the following day, and everyone rose and left. In "Inherit the Wind," this happens:. Bryan: All of you know what I stand for! What I believe! I believe, I believe in the truth of the Book of Genesis!
Bryan: Pounding the air with his fists. Brady [Bryan] beats his clenched fists in the air with every name. There is a rising counterpoint of reaction from the spectators.
This scene goes on, Bryan shouting the names of the books of the Bible with deranged fury as the townspeople jeer him. Then Bryan collapses on the witness stand and has a nervous breakdown, his wife rushing forward to console him. Nothing remotely similar to this happened at the actual trial. Bryan's wife, who was bedridden, did not even attend.
In the last courtroom scene of "Inherit the Wind," as the trial ends, Bryan insists on making a closing statement, waving what the stage directions call "a thick manuscript. Bryan: My dear friends! Your attention please! Fellow citizens, and friends of the unseen audience. From the hallow hills of sacred Sinai, in the days of remote antiquity, came the law which has been our bulwark and shield. Age upon age, men have looked to the law as they would to the mountains
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