Across
- 5. The literary device where Salem witch trials represent 1950s political persecution
- 7. The historical event Miller used as allegory
- 9. The court's refusal to accept reasonable doubt
- 11. Rebecca Nurse's role as moral voice of reason
- 12. The community's breakdown of social order
- 15. Proctor's farm location
- 16. The doll that becomes "evidence" of witchcraft
- 17. The girls' leader who manipulates the court
- 20. The affair that destroys Elizabeth's trust
- 22. Deputy governor who represents rigid legalism
- 23. The ultimate price for maintaining one's principles
- 27. The legal principle that those accused must prove their innocence
- 28. Court official who signs death warrants with bureaucratic detachment
- 29. Rebecca Nurse's husband
Down
- 1. Proctor's friend who dies by pressing for refusing to plead
- 2. The false testimonies that destroy lives
- 3. The girls' false visions that the court accepts as evidence
- 4. Proctor's fatal character flaw
- 6. The economic motivations behind many accusations
- 8. Proctor's wife, representing moral righteousness
- 10. Minister who initially believes in the girls' accusations
- 13. The religious fervor that fuels mass hysteria
- 14. The court's demand that forces Proctor's final decision
- 18. Landowner who accuses others for personal gain
- 19. The Putnams' daughter who feigns fits
- 21. The minister whose daughter's illness sparks the hysteria
- 24. The community's fear that enables the witch hunt
- 25. Proctor's internal conflict between truth and self-preservation
- 26. Protagonist's moral struggle represents this literary theme
- 28. The mass psychological phenomenon that drives the girls' accusations