FRED JORDAN'S cell. Slowly, at the end left unchalked, as for a door, she goes in. Her hand goes up as against a wall; looks at her other hand, sees it is out too far, brings it in, giving herself the width of the cell. Walks its length, halts, looks up.) And one window—too high up to see out.
(In the moment she stands there, she is in that cell; she is all the people
who are in those cells. EMIL JOHNSON [who works at the courthouse],
appears from outside.)
MADELINE: (stepping out of the cell door, and around it) Hello, Emil.
EMIL: How are you, Madeline? How do, Mr Morton. (IRA barely nods and does not turn. . . . EMIL turns back to MADELINE) Well, I'm just from the courthouse. Looks like you and I might take a ride together, Madeline. You come before the Commissioner at four.
A possible disadvantage to watching this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that viewers are
The correct answer is:
It strengthens the conflict by revealing the severity of the punishments that one convicted of spying will face.
The Inheritors is a play about an idealistic farmer´s granddaughter who stands up for the rights of Hindu nationals to protest at the college her grandfather founded, finding herself in prison for those actions.
The Inheritors was Glaspell’s act of resistance to the 1917 Espionage Act and the 1918 Sedition Act, both intended to empower the Wilson administration in dealing with internal hostile activities.
