In Haret The Wind
KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS
SETTING
The play takes place in Hillsboro. It is a small fictional town that is meant to resemble Dayton, Tennessee, where the Scopes trial was held in 1925.
LIST OF CHARACTERS
Major Characters
Matthew Harrison Brady - a politician and lawyer. He is the prosecuting attorney for the state against Bertram Cates and a three-time presidential candidate.
Henry Drummond - the lawyer for the defense. He is famous for taking the cases of unpopular clients.
Rachel Brown - the daughter of Hillsboro's minister and the girlfriend of the defendant, Bertram Cates. She is a teacher.
Bertram Cates - the defendant, who is a teacher. He taught his students about Charles Darwin's Origins of the Species in spite of the fact that it was against the laws of his state.
E. K. Hornbeck - a reporter for the Baltimore Herald. He comes to Hillsboro to cover the Cates trial. He considers the people of Hillsboro thoroughly backward in their thinking and looks on at the......
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Approximate Word Count: 1233
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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