Drummond In the play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind, Bertram Cates is put on trial for teaching Darwin’s Theory of evolution to his class, which is against the law in Hillsboro, Tennessee, because it contradicts the bibles’ theory of creation. Henry Drummond, a well known attorney from Chicago, becomes Cates’ defense attorney and uses the case as an opportunity to fight for the right to think and develop …showed first 75 words of 773 total…

…showed last 75 words of 773 total…head at the beginning of the trial but he stays determined and by the end, he feels that he has finally reached these people and has gotten them to realize that people should be able to think freely and in terms of truth, not necessarily right and wrong. Having accomplished this, Drummond feels that it is a victory in the fight for a person’s right to think and express whatever he or she chooses.