Inherit the Wind

In our Consititution, citizens have many righhts, but do we have the right to think? In the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence adn Robert Lee, a man is on trial for teaching his students about the theory of evolution. Drummond, the lawyer for this man, said "With all respect to the bench, I hold that the right to think is very much on trial." In the small town of Hillsborough most people are …

…of the Bible. Drummond does not try to convince the jury that Darwin is right and the Bible is wrong; he wants them to see we have the right to think for ourselves. This case has changed the course of history by eventually changing this law. Drummond was not an atheist; he wanted to protect Darwin's theory or anyone else's idea. We have the right to think, make theories and come to our own conclusions.