The names of those people were tainted as dangerous. A prime example of this in McCarthyism is the Hollywood blacklist. A group of ten Hollywood actors and screenwriters who demanded the right to have any political position they desired, in defiance of HUAC, were forced to serve one year in prison for contempt of Congress ("Hollywood Ten."). The names of these ten people were placed on the first blacklist, marking their names as those who should not be trusted ("Hollywood Ten."). This list is analogous to the one that John Proctor is forced to sign in The Crucible. Having a name on both lists is traumatic, a name blacklisted as communist would result in unemployment ("Hollywood Ten."), while having a name on a witchcraft testimony nailed to the church causes public embarrassment. John Proctor exemplifies this ordeal: “Because it's my name! Because I can't have another one in my life! Because I lie and indulge in lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of those who hang! How can I live without my name? I gave you my soul; leave me my name! (Miller 113). In both situations there was resistance to the court. John Proctor and Corey Giles petition in the third act, attempt to free the innocent from prison. However this becomes threatening to the court, resulting in their own imprisonment. As mentioned above, the Hollywood Ten were the main opponents of the