The Crucible

3. The historical fear of Communism that inspired Miller’s allegory.
4. What Abigail claims she and the other girls conjured during their dancing.
7. Reverend Parris’s primary antagonist in the Salem community.
8. The character who provides the crucial spark for the accusations against Tituba.
12. The emotion that drives the witch trials and sustains the hysteria.
13. The narrative technique Miller uses to interject historical context in the Overture.
16. A key theme in Act 1, where fairness is twisted by paranoia and personal grievances.
17. Abigail drinks this in the forest in hopes of killing Elizabeth Proctor.
18. A term for someone who deviates from Puritan beliefs and is viewed as morally corrupt.

1. The forest setting in Act 1, representing secrecy and the lurking presence of sin.
2. A reflection of the economic and land disputes fueling the accusations.
5. John Proctor’s internal struggle centers on this moral quality.
6. The character who calls Tituba a “good soul” before accusing her.
9. A system of belief and governance that intertwines faith with law in Salem.
10. A character who personifies the theme of vengeance by leveraging the trials.
11. The primary concern of Reverend Parris, even above his daughter’s health.
14. The Puritan belief that children should be seen and not heard, embodied in Betty’s silence.
15. The type of government Arthur Miller critiques in his allegory about McCarthyism.
19. The driving force behind the chaos in Salem, fueled by fear and paranoia.