The setting in many ways is vital to the story as it was
chosen by the real town that they would be the place to have this debate take place in
the form of a trial. It provides a great deal of drama for the movie as well given that
it takes place in the South, always seen as a hotbed for revivalist and evangelical
religious feeling, some of the main opposing forces to the idea of teaching evolution in
schools at the time.
The setting also provides another
element of conflict as it pits the Northern lawyer against the southern one, and two
mindsets of the two different regions against each other as
well.
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