Lambert & Butler

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is a fictionalized play on the Scopes Trial, formally known as the Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. In July 21, 1925, a high school teacher was accused of violating the Butler Act. This act made it illegal to teach evolution in any state funded school. Although Scopes was unsure he taught evolution, he incriminated himself and was found guilty. The subject of the play reflects this event except Inherit the Wind holds themes of censorship,

I didn’t know what to expect on my first day of English 202. I had no idea what English 202 meant or what exactly I would be doing in the class. I quickly learned and began to understand what being an English major was all about. In my fall English 202 class, I did well with inward-looking theories and discovered that was my preferred way to approach a literary text, though I still enjoyed some out looking theories like psychoanalytic. Going forward in my major I would like to work on my time management

In their play Inherit the Wind, Lawrence and Lee’s fictionalization of the Scopes Trial illustrates how the mid-twentieth century movement against intellectualism infringed upon the Constitutional rights of Americans. By manipulating details, Lee and Laurence distanced themselves from the repercussions they may have faced during the McCarthyism era. Furthermore, the addition of new characters and plot differences makes for a more entertaining play. The playwrights specifically avoid referencing

1925 Tennessee passed the Butler Act. Making it unlawful in public schools to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation as taught by the Bible. But to teach instead that man was descended from a lower order of animals. It was in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee where a 24 year old fresh out of college , high school substitute named John Scopes taught the theory of evolution to a biology class. This was just two months after the passing of the Butler Act. John Scopes was then charged

many. One of the best films created and the winner of many academy awards is known as Gone with the Wind directed by, Victor Fleming. Fleming’s, Gone with the Wind tells the romantic yet tragic story of Scarlett O’Hara, the protagonist, and Rhett Butler, while at the same time giving a depiction of the life in the South, before, during, and after the American Civil War. The film, moreover, shows how much someone is willing to do in order to obtain what she wants, and how sometimes it’s too late to

counterintuitive argument that understandings of human are produced through inaccurate representations. Butler believes that “For representation to convey the human, then, representation must not only fail, but it must show its failure”(Precariousness 144). Use of the word failure in this sentence somewhat misleads the reader. In this instance representations that “fail” could be said to be successes. Butler believes that “there is something unrepresentable that we nevertheless seek to represent, and that

Throughout the film ¨Gone with the Wind¨, Scarlett and Rhett´s relationship is convoluted. Their relationship all together was just toxic. First of all, there are mixed feelings involved due to Scarlettś indecisiveness, one moment she is all about having a healthy relationship with Rhett and is convinced she is over Ashley, but later on she is found having the same feelings for him. Later on, at one point, Rhett finally asks Scarlett to marry him and she says yes, but after their first child she

theory and politics are intertwined with feminist theory and politics, the transgender history in the United States has observed quite a troubled relationship between transgenderism and feminism. While feminist philosophers like Donna Haraway, Judith Butler and many others had contributed significantly in transgender politics; a group of second wave feminists rejected the idea of transgender. Especially a group of feminists refused to accept transsexual women as women and forbid their access to women-only

In the title of her 1993 book, ‘Bodies that matter’, Judith Butler explicitly evokes the abject in the construction of her book and thesis. By titling her book, and thus implying a focus on bodies that matter, Butler is evoking a simultaneous contrast- of bodies mattering and also, by virtue of this selective mattering, of other bodies not mattering. This is particularly in reference to the concept of materiality that Butler outlines as a key component of her thesis, challenging the pre-supposition

Annamarie Jagose’s analysis of feminist and queer theory, in her article “Feminism Queer Theory”, demonstrates the separation of these two fields. Ultimately, however, her argument focuses on how even though they have seemingly different projects, “feminist theory and queer theory together have a stake in both desiring and articulating the complexities of the traffic between gender and sexuality.” Based on this argument, queer theory and feminist theory can exist together, and in fact must do so