Quotes

Question 1

Rachel’s naivety and weakness

Answer 1

Wake up Sleeping Beauty

Question 2

Hornbeck mocks Brady

Answer 2

A cathedral for a cloak and a church spire for a hat

Question 3

Hornbeck’s arrogance

Answer 3

E.K Hornbeck’s brilliant little symphony of words

Question 4

Hornbeck tempting Rachel

Answer 4

Have a bite? Don’t worry, I’m not the serpent, little Eva. This isn’t from the tree of knowledge

Question 5

Hornbeck mocks Elijah

Answer 5

Why, I had no idea you were still around. I’ve read some of your stuff

Question 6

Hornbeck mocking spirituality

Answer 6

Which is hungrier- my stomach or my soul?

My stomach

Question 7

Hornbeck mocking Hilsborough

Answer 7

I had a nice place to stay, Madame, and I left it to come here

Question 8

Hornbeck on Brady’s “success”

Answer 8

A balding orphan, an aging adolescent […]Show me a shouter and I’ll show you and Also-Ran. A might have been. An almost-was

Question 9

Brady’s collapse from Hornbeck

Answer 9

Mount Brady will erupt again by nightfall, spouting lukewarm and irrelevant ashes

Question 10

Hornbeck’s use of rhetoric

Answer 10

Batman bunkum Bible-beating bastard!

Question 11

Rachel scared of dad

Answer 11

I was always more frightened of him than I was of falling

Question 12

Rachel wants Bert to change his mind

Answer 12

Why can’t you be on the right side of things

Question 13

Rachel nervous on the stand

Answer 13

I did answer, didn’t I? What was the question?

She opens her mouth to speak, but nothing comes out. Her lips move wordlessly

Question 14

Rachel on her fear of thoughts

Answer 14

I was afraid of what I might think - so it seemed safer not to think it at all

Question 15

Rachel on Darwin

Answer 15

Maybe what Mr Darwin wrote is bad. I don’t know. Bad or good, the ideas have to come out - like children. Some of em healthy as a bean plant, some sickly

Question 16

Rachel’s wishes of Bert

Answer 16

You make it sound as if Bert is a hero. I’d like to think that, but I can’t

Question 17

Brown cursing Cates

Answer 17

We call down hellfire in the man who has sinned against the world

Let his soul writhe in anguish damnation

Question 18

Brown on Drummon

Answer 18

Drummond is a vicious godless man

Agent of darkness

Question 19

Brown curses his own daughter

Answer 19

We call down the same curse on those who ask for this sinner, though they be flesh of my flesh and blood of my blood

Question 20

Bert on the complexities of the situation

Answer 20

It isn’t as simple as that. Good or bad, black or white, might or day

Question 21

The towns view of Bert

Answer 21

People I thought were my friends look at me now as if I had horns growing out of my head

They’ll crucify me!

Question 22

Bert’s determination

Answer 22

(Quietly, with determination) No, sir. I’m not gonna quit

Question 23

Bert on the problems of Browns teachings

Answer 23

Tell em what your father really said! That Tommy’s soul was damned, writhing in hellfire!

Question 24

Bert on the purpose of religion

Answer 24

Religion’s supposed to comfort people, isn’t it? Not frighten them to death

Question 25

Berts kindness

Answer 25

Don’t plague her. Let her go

Question 26

Drummond on the importance of a free-thinking jury

Answer 26

Conform! What do you want to do - run the jury through a meat grinder so they all com out the same?

Question 27

Drummond in fundamentalists

Answer 27

All I want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medieval nonsense

Question 28

Drummond to Cates on religions history

Answer 28

You murder a wife, it isn’t nearly as bad as murdering an old wive’s tale

Question 29

Drummond to Brady on his increasing irrelevance

Answer 29

Perhaps it is you who have moved away- by standing still

Question 30

Drummond on the significance of the trail

Answer 30

A thinking man! And he is threatened with a fine and imprisonment because he chooses to speak what he thinks

Question 31

Drummond on the importance of free will

Answer 31

In a child’s power to master the multiplication table there is more sanctity than all your shouted “Amens!” “Holy holies!” [...] An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral

Question 32

Drummond the advance of knowledge

Answer 32

Darwin moved us forward to a hilltop, where we could look back and see the way we came. But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis

Question 33

Drummond on the importance of truth

Answer 33

Golden Dancer: whenever you see something bright, shiny, perfect seeming [...] look behind the paint. And if it’s a lie, show it up for what it really is!

Question 34

Drummond on Brady’s departure

Answer 34

With a skull full of undelivered inauguration speeches

Question 35

Brady’s past awe and the true nature of God

Answer 35

A giant once lived in that body [..] he was looking for God too high up and too far away

Question 36

The ending image

Answer 36

(Holds both [...] as if his hands were scales, and they teeter with equal weight)

Question 37

Brady’s nature

Answer 37

(Seems to carry with him a built in spotlight)

Question 38

Brady’s flattery

Answer 38

Friends - and I can see that most of you are friends by the way you have decked out your beautiful city

Question 39

Brady’s pride

Answer 39

(Savouring it) “Colonel Brady” I like the sound of that.

Question 40

Mrs Brady and Hubbie

Answer 40

I have to build up my strength, mother, for the battle ahead Mother. They’re laughing at me mother.

Question 41

Brady appealing to town on the importance of a tough opponent

Answer 41

If St George had slain a dragonFLY, who would remember him?

Question 42

Brady’s superfluous language

Answer 42

I do not feel that the dignity of this court will suffer if we remove a few superfluous outer garments

Question 43

Brady warning Brown

Answer 43

He that troubleth his own house... shall inherit the wind. The bible tells us also that God forgives his children

Question 44

Brady’s mocking of evolution

Answer 44

This talk of bugs and “Evil-ution” of slime and ooze Zoo-ological hogwash slobbered around the schoolrooms!

Question 45

Drummond warning Brady’s confidence

Answer 45

The gall to whoop up this holy war against something you don’t know

Question 46

Drummlnds breakdown of Brady

Answer 46

(Drummond is still probing for a weakness in Goliath’s armour) (The sound of it strikes Brady as if he had been slapped in the face) We must NOT abandon faith!

Question 47

Brady’s loss of crowd

Answer 47

(The crown seems to be slipping away from Brady and aligning itself more and more with Drummond)

Question 48

Brady loosing control

Answer 48

Your client is wrong! He is deluded! He has lost his way! (Fidgeting, floundering, wriggling)

Question 49

Brady’s incompetence of modern things

Answer 49

Can one speak into either side of the machine?

Question 50

Brady’s grandiloquent and religious speeches

Answer 50

From the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai

Question 51

Brady’s inauguration speech

Answer 51

As your new President, is like to say what I have said all my life...