J LAWRENCE & RE LEE: Inherit the Wind Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Read this passage carefully, and then answer the question that follows it: The courtroom, two days later. Again, out of the darkness, the lights bump up to a golden portrait, frozen in time: bright midday, the trial is in full swing. The action starts, the fans pump. The Judge is on the bench; the jury, lawyers, officials, and spectators crowd the courtroom. 5 Three witnesses are seated in the front row among the spectators: the scientists AARONSON, KELLER, and PAGE. AARONSON is Einstein-like. PAGE holds a specimen box in his lap (later we will see that it contains a rock which splits to reveal a fossil). The schoolboy HOWARD is on the witness stand. He is wretched in a starched collar and Sunday suit. The weather is as relentlessly hot as before. BRADY is examining the boy, who is a witness for the prosecution. 10 Brady: Go on, Howard. Tell them what else Mr. Cates told you in the classroom. Howard: Well, he said at first the earth was too hot for any life. Then it cooled off a mite, and cells and things begun to live. 15 Brady: Cells? Howard: Little bugs, like, in the water. After that, the little bugs got to be bigger bugs, and sprouted legs and crawled up on the land. Brady: How long did this take, according to Mr. Cates? Howard: Couple million years. Maybe longer. Then comes the fishes and the reptiles 20 and the mammals. Man's a mammal. Brady: Along with the dogs and the cattle in the field: did he say that? Howard: Yes sir. [DRUMMOND is about to protest against prompting the witness, then he decides it isn't worth the trouble.] Brady: Now, Howard, how did man come out of this slimy mess of bugs and serpents, according to your – “Professor"? 25 Howard: Man was sort of evoluted. From the “Old World Monkeys.” [BRADYslaps his thigh.] Brady [Crossing to jury]: Did you hear that, my friends? “Old World Monkeys”! According to Mr. Cates, you and I aren't even descended from good American monkeys! [There is laughter from spectators. BRADY turns back to HOWARD.] Howard, listen carefully. In all this talk of bugs and “Evil-ution,” of slime and ooze, did Mr. Cates ever make any reference to God? 30 Howard: Not as I remember. Brady: Or the miracle He achieved in seven days as described in the beautiful Book of Genesis? 35 Howard: Brady: No, sir. [BRADYstretches out his arms in an all-embracing gesture.] Ladies and gentlemen – Drummond: Objection! [Rising.] I ask that the court remind the learned counsel that this is not a Chautauqua tent. He is supposed to be submitting evidence to a jury. There are no ladies on the jury. [He sits. There is a low mutter from the spectators.] 40 Brady: Your Honor, I have no intention of making a speech. There is no need. I am sure that everyone on the jury, everyone within the sound of this boy’s voice, is moved by his tragic confusion. He has been taught that he wriggled up like an animal from the filth and the muck below! [Continuing fervently, the spirit is upon him.] I say that the Bible-haters, these “Evil-utionists,” are brewers of poison! And the legislature of this sovereign state has had the wisdom to demand that the peddlers of poison – in bottles – [Turns and points to CATES.] or in books - clearly label the products they attempt to sell! [There is an applause from the spectators. HOWARD gulps. BRADY points at the boy.] I tell you, if this law is not upheld, this boy will become one of a generation, shorn of its faith by the teaching of Godless science! But if the full penalty of the law is meted out to Bertram Cates, the faithful the whole world over, who are watching us here, and listening to our every word, will call this courtroom blessed! [Applause from the spectators. Even one of the jury members is moved to applaud, but is stopped by his neighbors. Dramatically, BRADY moves to his chair. Condescendingly, he waves to DRUMMOND.] Your witness, sir. [BRADY sits. DRUMMOND rises, slouches toward the witness stand.] 45 50 55 [From Act 2] How do the writers make you feel about Brady's behaviour in the courtroom at this moment in the play?