Across
- 2. objective reality, law, order, and the inescapable presence of conscience
- 4. the growing feeling of anxiety, tension, and uncertainty that makes the reader wonder what will happen next
- 6. the narrator’s overwhelming guilt, subconscious conscience, and mounting insanity
- 7. the narrator's unhinged psychological state, his obsession with the old man’s "vulture eye," and the terrifying descent into guilt and madness
- 9. the deceptive façade of normalcy and the physical suppression of guilt
- 10. belongs to the old man and is described as a pale blue eye with a film over it
- 11. perversion of safety and act as the instrument of murder
Down
- 1. death, mortality, and the creeping descent into madness
- 3. narrator’s obsession and madness, impending death, and the projection of his own guilt and evil nature
- 5. an irrational obsession with the old man's pale, "vulture-like" eye rather than a traditional motive like greed, anger, or hatred of the person himself
- 7. the suffocating, closed-in, and tense atmosphere of the story
- 8. innocent victim, a roommate or employer/caretaker figure, and a psychological symbol of the narrator’s irrational fears and guilt