The Crucible – NYC and The Department of Education’s Mass Hysteria
Public Shame and the Mass Hysteria that Follows
Martha Corey: I, sir, am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.
Judge Hathorne: If you know not what a witch is, how do you know you are not one?
~ The Crucible, IMDb quotes
The activities of McCarthy and his followers gave birth to the term McCarthyism.
This term is used in reference to “sensational and highly publicized personal attacks, usually based on
