Similarities between the crucible and the mcCarthy hunt
- Both The Crucible and the McCarthy hunt involved accusing people of doing something without any physical evidence besides someone's word.
- Many people's image were ruined because of the false accusations.
- The people that didn't support the McCarthy hunt were accused or anyone that spoke against it.
- The world "crux" means cross or trial - also meaning a severe test. In both of these stories everybody that didn't agree with what was happening was basically put through a severe test or trial.
- During the McCarthy hunt people were convicted and went to jail. But in The Crucible people that were accused of being witches got hanged.
- Many people in both incidents were falsely accused.