Monster Essays - The Crucible: A Review
The Crucible: A Review
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 witch
hunt held there in the late seventeenth century, but it was written in the
United States during the famous witch hunt held there in the 1950s. Isn't
it simply astounding how similar these events are? They are
incomprehensible in their simplicity, if you dislike your neighbor then you
accuse them of being a witch (or a communist). You would have thought that
through two hund....
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