Similarities Between Hale And Mccarthy Witch Trials

The Affairs of McCarthy and the Trials

There are many affairs throughout history, but this is one of the most important affairs in history ever is the McCarthy and witch trials . These I would have to say are very important not just in how we used to act. It has made us look back and think how uncivilized we were. We still have the same old ideas we had, but some we have gotten rid of and I don't think we should go back. They are witchcraft and mccarthyism, the two most thought to be evil practices ever in history.

History is made up of these crazy events that have made history what it is today. Witch trials seems evil and dark, but it set an example for modern people to look back on and think how can people make themselves better from previous mistakes our ancestors have made.

The first idea that this essay is about the witch trials. This was practiced at a time where if a girl was caught of doing witchcraft, she was a witch. There are many things people were

accused of doing for them to be called witches, like; drinking blood, running naked through the woods and rituals that were not taught back then and were thought to be witch or devil like. This idea made a lot of people question who they were living among.
Witchcraft was so evil that back then that she would be hung, burned at the stake or even worse pressed to death. In order to be called a witch she would have to be caught drinking goat's blood or dancing in the woods singing a song naked. She would get caught, then next day the witness would try to say her and her friends were witches. By now she hasn't admitted to anything until it happens more often and she gets caught by other people.
Now they take it to court and accuse her of witchcraft, now she has to give a good reason why she's not a witch. If the people don't believe her, the judge will burn whomever is being accused of witchcraft at the stake or hung, that's if they don't escape. This means she and her friends, if she was caught with others, would have to escape their whole life and start a new one. This could also mean starting a new life with new relationships, new names and new everything, except they would have to hide up their hidden secret about being a witch.
Witchcraft was also proven to be very skeptical too, even after the people who were considered witches left. Some people would think of witchcraft like some weird teachings of the church. If travelers would come to the town and knew nothing about witches, but they saw people run around naked in the forest or sing weird song and act different at night time it would probably be a good guess that they would leave. This would also make people wonder their religion and even their beliefs, which would make everyone not believe in whatever God they worship.
Comparing witchcraft to the McCarthy trials is such a big difference between the two, but I think that both have significant differences. For instance the McCarthy trials, John McCarthy made all the fear and questions of man be answered. The witch trials had people like reverend Hale stand up against the town and say witchcraft is made up. These both had followers of witchcraft and followers of McCarthyism, but these both made good standing arguments for the people who believed and didn't believe. The ones who were against the whole idea criticized the other group for being crazy because they had different ideas. It's almost has the same concept as politics because one side believes their side is better, therefore should be the only idea to be followed.
The second topic that was mentioned earlier was the idea of McCarthyism and the trials that followed. McCarthyism started when Joseph McCarthy believed that the government wasn’t doing their job and not providing the people what they need, so Joe McCarthy created McCarthyism. This is where people believed in McCarthyism for answers no government could supply and teach. He was so popular that instead of questioning the ideas and teachings of McCarthy, people started questioning the government and believing that what we are taught about our life is a lie.
During the McCarthy age, there was death accusations made everyday. Multiple people were put on blacklists for their beliefs and followings of McCarthy. Just like during the witch trials their whole life, the people of America didn’t believe Truman was in the right. Truman was like the people who were accused being witches, because he was starting to have less followers like the supposed witches and his followers starting to question what is real or just some made up thing McCarthy made up to make him look bad. As a president this was very important because he could either be made fun of and lose his position as president or he could be looked at like a person who needs to always be in control, which is also not very good.
McCarthy was always suspecting that something wasn’t right about what was being taught to the people, like Reverend Hale they both had a bad feeling about their opposing views. proved himself by going to people who he felt was guilty, making his own accusations and believed he was the only one who was the smartest person there was. They later used the people’s fears against them and turned it towards their opposing sides and beliefs. Reverend Hale and also went to people and just accused them of their crimes.
Hoover was like, “McCarthy your accusations must stop”.

They also talked to a lot of people, but both Hale and McCarthy both didn’t let their prosecuted suspects even prove that they are innocent before guilty. They both just made people guilty until proven innocent, which is totally opposite of what it is today. McCarthy, if Hale was real and a nonfictional character, he would be the reincarnation of Reverend hale. Two different stories, but they share two main points; corruption and lies.

This could be also said for John Proctor and Hoover because they both wanted their ways to be followed and to be used. So when people like reverend hale steps in and tells them otherwise, then that's when the grudges and evil feelings for others come out. This is also why in the “Crucible”, John hides his affair of his and Abigail's from his wife. To lie and make it seem like he's not the real bad guy, which made Abigail be in charge of the girls and make them not go around telling the towns folk about their

secret.
With these ideas having such conflict it makes a comparison like this interesting because it makes us think that these are two different stories with the same concept. Not to mention the time in between each event, because these are said to be one hundred years apart from each other. For instance for Americans it would be like having slavery being brought back. It would make a lot of people disagree and just go crazy, just like the McCarthy trials were affected by how president Hoover argued against McCarthy. John proctor was like president Hoover at the time and Reverend Hale was like McCarthy , always had an argument for something Hoover mentioned.