The Crucible and Mccarthy
...thing called mccartheism, which was basically when Mccarthy accused you of being a communist. The accusations where both very cruel and very unfair, in each story if you where accused you had no right way out. For instants in Salem the town in which the crucible takes place people would accuse there neighbors left and right. It was not un common for a sixteen year old girl to accuse another girl out of jealousy and dislike, and once you where accused there was no way out of it, they would do test on you to see if you where a witch for instant, sometimes they would tie your legs to a heavy rock, throw you in the ocean and see if you float, if you floated then you where a witch but if you sunk you where dead anyway. This is very similar to Mccarthy, you see he was a very talented arguer and if he suspected you as a communist he would make you cooperate. If you for some reason declined to answer you where sent to prison. He destroyed peoples lives and he really only did it for the publicity. All though still very similar, they still had some differences. For example, they where in completely ...