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The Crucible: A Review - Online Term Paper

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 hundred and fifty years of developing our democratic ...

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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 and
truly understand is in for quite a shock, the truth.
As for recommending this to my school's reading list, I cry out, “
Yes!”, let them read it. However, the content of the book would probably
be questionable, for it deals with the ugly truth, something not very
popular in school. The Crucible would probably be acceptable because it
does not portray the Salem witch trials in a particularly “graphic” way.
(However, I still stand by my proposition that the truth is disliked in
school)
I ...

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Added: 9/24/2004 05:23:56 PM
Category: Arts
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 426
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