10. The townspeople of Hillsboro might as well be clones, at least in the beginning of the story. They are religious and have faith in Christianity. They do not wish to think for themselves, rather carry on living in the shelter of an outdated custom. They uniformly and ecstatically welcome Brady to town. They respected Brady. He was like a hometown hero to them, even though some of them were seeing him for the first time that day. On the contrary, the townspeople held an extraordinary amount of contempt for evolution. While some people carried signs routing for Brady, others carried signs condemning evolution. The scientific theory was sacrilege in their eyes. So much so that they didn’t even want to hear Darwin’s words of blasphemy in their town. The small-minded people of the small town of Hillsboro were exactly the type of people that a man like Brady appealed to. Reverend Brown, the extremely religious man who wished death upon Cates praised Brady as if he was the Messiah. Even for Cates’ lover Rachel it was difficult to take a leap and start thinking for herself. By the end of the story the townspeople have started to favor Drummond. They laugh at Brady when Drummond makes jokes about him, and barely listen to the words that Brady has to say. At the end of Act 2 Scene 2, Drummond has made Brady look like a fool by fighting the truth of everything in the bible with science. Brady cannot back down from his fundamentalist ideals, so Drummond is able to turn the crowd’s favor. By the end of the scene the crowd is walking out of the courtroom while Brady tries to win back their favor by chanting biblical verses.