Is "The Crucible" an appropriate analogy for the McCarthy trials?

Question

Why?
-accusations?
-courtroom proceedings?
-punishment/after sffects?

Answer 1

They were both "witch hunts". In The Crucible, they were literally trying to uncover witches (which were the products of their fevered imaginations) and mass hysteria ensued.
In the McCarthy "witch hunt", the "witches" were the "Communist agents" that supposedly had infiltrated the State Department and the Army. Again, they were (at least mostly) figments of the imagination and the country got caught up in mass hysteria, seeing "Commies" everywhere.
By the way, I'm so old that I can actually remember seeing the "McCarthy hearings" on TV, and can recall the Senator being destroyed by Welch:

"The new chief counsel even insists on hiring G. David Shine, a hotel heir who doesn't know a thing about how to conduct a proper witch-hunt. It isn't any time at all before Cohn threatens people like Dashiell Hammett and the engineers working for the Voice of America in a shameful series of interrogations resulting in wrecked careers and ruined lives. When the United States Army drafts Shine, Cohn launches a personal vendetta against the Department of the Army. His goal is to procure an assignment for Shine on the committee, but the Army sees things differently. The military recorded dozens of threats Roy made against them and threaten to release them to the media if McCarthy and Cohn refuse to back off. The case does go to committee and the Army's attorney, Joseph Welch, publicly destroys the Wisconsin senator."

Answer 2

Yes, "witch hunts" in Hollywood in the early 1950s, involved actors, directors, writers and even Arthur Miller himself! He wrote the play as a modern morality play symbolizing the McCarthy era of falsely persecuting others of being Communists in the same way residents of Salem were falsely accused of witchcraft.

Answer 3

just out of curiousity do you have catalano for english?