Their real weapon was the merciless questioning that went on and on, hour after hour, tripping him up, laying traps for him, twisting everything that he said, convicting him at every step of lies and self-contradiction until he began weeping as much from shame as from nervous fatigue. Laetitia Casta Fansite. But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible.