“The Scope Monkey Trial- Inherit the Wind” (link at bottom of page)

“The Scope Monkey Trial- Inherit the Wind” site was comparing the actual historical events to the work of Lawrence and Lee. This site informed me that Inherit the Wind is not an accurate source for the truth about these trials. For one the book had fictional characters, in which two of them, the preacher and his daughter, were completely made up and not relative to the case at all, and they were important characters in the book. Many of the actions in the book were far less dramatic and just plain wrong. For example man who was Matthew Harrison Brady in real life was actually the one to read some of Darwin’s works, unlike in the book where Henry Drummond was the one to have read his work. This really switches up the view on the trials to know this because this makes Brady know so much more than was portrayed in the book and it gives him a right to disagree and because he knew what he was fighting against. Overall this site shares that Inherit the Wind was really written about at the time McCarthyism not so much to give us a historical background on the Scope trials like so many people think.