The Crucible and McCarthyism; people always think they have nothing in common, but once you read both documents you will notice they have so many parallels. McCarthyism was in the 1940’s many years after The Crucible of 1692. The main three parallels would have to be: Naming names, Lack of proof, and Resistance. Even though the gapped years they still have many parallels. Time does change, but the actions of people do not. Naming names was probably a big deal as well as the other things. During these two events they had some people to give names. During The Crucible two young girls Abigail, and Betty both gave names of of ladies claimed to be doing witchcraft. McCarthyism had Joseph McCarthy to give the names of other communist, because