How Does Lee Use Syntax In Inherit The Wind
The Scope’s Trial – or Monkey Trial, was an infamous event that shed light on a very dark area in one of the world’s most controversial issues. In the play, Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, the authors attempt to fictionalize the court case to provide a very interesting view of the controversial event to their audience. Using certain rhetorical strategies such as appealing to their audience emotionally, along with many literary devices like diction, syntax, allusions, and subjectivity in the controversy, help to convey a variety of important messages to audiences around the globe. The controversy of Darwin versus The Holy Father is perhaps the greatest argument of all time. In the novel, these two concepts are approached and defended by two men, who with the playwright’s use of syntax in their dialogues; embody the feelings and image of the side that they’re defending. When the authors wrote of Brady’s inquisition to the young schoolboy Howard, Brady said “…In all this talk of bugs and ‘evil-ution’, did Mr. Cates ever make a reference to God or the Miracle He achieved in
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While he uses this proverb in an attempt to forever imprison Bertram Cates (a very un-holy act in itself), he actually only contradicts himself, because the meaning of this proverb can be interpreted in an entirely different way. This quote can be read as one who creates problems, and one who lies, is left nothing more than the wind. With this interpretation, Colonel Brady and his beliefs are the problem, placing an entirely different feeling towards the trial yet again. The subjectivity of the authors is now pro Darwinism, sending readers on a spiraling rollercoaster of up and down emotions towards the theory of evolution and the teachings of the
While he uses this proverb in an attempt to forever imprison Bertram Cates (a very un-holy act in itself), he actually only contradicts himself, because the meaning of this proverb can be interpreted in an entirely different way. This quote can be read as one who creates problems, and one who lies, is left nothing more than the wind. With this interpretation, Colonel Brady and his beliefs are the problem, placing an entirely different feeling towards the trial yet again. The subjectivity of the authors is now pro Darwinism, sending readers on a spiraling rollercoaster of up and down emotions towards the theory of evolution and the teachings of the