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 ....