After the crusade against “Pagan” and “medieval nonsense”, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s Inherit the Wind entertains the idea of respecting one’s enemy. Henry Drummond and Mathew Brady were their own type of juggernaut in their field, and each man had their own view. After the untimely death of Brady, Drummond gives one of the central themes of Inherit the Wind. Following all the hate-filled aspersions in Inherit the Wind, Drummond teaches the idea of respecting thy enemy after victory.
The trial of Bertram Cates was not a subdued issue in Hillsboro. The battle to protect the principles of “the city of Zion” was a heated issue in the southern town (Lawrence and Lee 16). Henry Drummond was a man against all odds, his enemy, Mathew Brady,