The main correlation is the way accusations were thrown around, in the story The Crucible People were being called witches if the girls didn’t like them and it left the people in a state of paranoia and fear while in the United States The Red Scare had everyone paranoid not knowing who is a Communist and who isn’t. the people who were called out on being a communist. A key factor to the whole thing was Joseph McCarthy who had thrown names around of those who he accused of being Communist while working in state departments. Another key factor was the people in both The Crucible and in the United States, if a person was to be called a witch in The Crucible they would be hauled off to jail and hanged unless they confessed and in the U.S people who were accused of being Communist could have their lives
The main correlation is the way accusations were thrown around, in the story The Crucible People were being called witches if the girls didn’t like them and it left the people in a state of paranoia and fear while in the United States The Red Scare had everyone paranoid not knowing who is a Communist and who isn’t. the people who were called out on being a communist. A key factor to the whole thing was Joseph McCarthy who had thrown names around of those who he accused of being Communist while working in state departments. Another key factor was the people in both The Crucible and in the United States, if a person was to be called a witch in The Crucible they would be hauled off to jail and hanged unless they confessed and in the U.S people who were accused of being Communist could have their lives