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What creative ways we humans invent for persecuting each other. Isn't it amazing that despite all our scientific and humanitarian advances we, as a race, still feel the need to persecute each other? The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts during the famous wit ....

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.... when others accuse. Is it perhaps simple human nature to fear and hate that which we do not know? Is the human race, as a whole, really this close to the swamps and oceans from which we pulled ourselves? Has evolution really just played some sort of immense prank on us, bestowing upon us the gifts of reason and judgment, but blurring them with prejudice and blind hatred? (Too many question...Not enough answers... Isn't that always the case?) The Crucible is an incredible book, through the medium of a historical event it manages to shine a light into the cold, dark, depths of human existence. Anyone who is willing to put forth the time to read ....