Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Allusions to Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind is a playwright. So a lot of movies and broadway plays have been performed based on this play. For example there were three movies created based on this work, one in 1965, one in 1988, and one in 1999. They were all called Inherit the wind. There was also a spoof done in the Simpsons on this book and the Monkey Suit Trials, which is what this book was about. Inherit the Wind is also an allusion to heaven and hell as well. Henry Drummond was evil Matthew Harrison Brady was good. And the ways of thinking were evil and the ways of tradition were good. Also, to me, this book was an allusion to most of the major court cases that were conducted through out America's history, for example Roe vs. Wade, Brown vs. Board of Education, Frost vs. Nixon, ect.

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