Matthew Brady in Inherit The Wind

The Scopes Trial is one the gr expel court clashes in register about creation v. organic evolution in the book acquire The Wind. Set in the modest town of Hillsboro, this case represents a duel between ii major lawyers known as total heat Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady as they come after together in the courtroom. public prosecutor Matthew Brady represents the values of fundamental Christianity plot defense attorney Henry Drummond is the voice of reason and science. Although the dickens men have been sizeable friends and partners in the one-time(prenominal), the case in Hillsboro reveals the difference in their values. Matthew Harrison Brady is an public speaker and a three-time presidential assholedidate. prosecutor Matthew Brady controls the role as a fundamentalist and his familiarity with the Bible wins him pregnant respect and results in his brave attitude. Although Brady at times can be a exhaustively and compassionate\nMan, his literal judgement of th e volume keeps him stuck in the past and his inability to cope eventually leads to the loss of his life.\nBrady and the people of Hillsboro be fundamentalists in the religious sense. They take the Bible literally, or as Brady says, everything in the Bible should be accepted, exactly as its presumptuousness there (87). To Brady, fundamentalism not however means literal interpreting of the bible, but complete borrowing of it. Questioning the bible or discovering a different adaptation is completely unthinkable. When being questioned by Drummond in court, Brady shuts down. He forces himself not think about the calamity that what is written in the bible is next to impossible, and was not meant be taken literally. Bradys reluctance to learn to Drummonds challenge to the biblical literary productions displays his fundamentalism boldly. The marriage of this devotion and chains from the prosecution cause Brady to eat his stress away.\nCompassion plays a key role in Matthew Brad ys character. In the following excerpt, he discusses forgiveness when the Reve...