The Crucible Word Search
This Crucible word search holds forty words from Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials: Proctor, Abigail, Tituba, Danforth, Reverend Hale, the poppet and its needle, and the gallows.
Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953, when Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings had people naming suspected Communists to save their careers. Three years later Miller was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee himself, refused to name others, and was convicted of contempt of Congress; the conviction was overturned on appeal. A crucible is a pot for melting metal at great heat, and by extension a severe test.
The real trials of 1692 left twenty people dead: nineteen hanged, and Giles Corey, an old farmer, pressed under stones for refusing to enter a plea. Miller changed some facts for the stage. The real Abigail Williams was about eleven and John Proctor was about sixty. In the last act Proctor signs a confession and then tears it up rather than let the court nail it to the church door, because it carries his name.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic The Crucible has.
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- Abigail
- Accuse
- Allegory
- Arthur Miller
- Betty
- Cheever
- Confess
- Court
- Dancing
- Danforth
- Deposition
- Elizabeth
- Forest
- Gallows
- Giles Corey
- Hale
- Hathorne
- Herrick
- Hysteria
- Integrity
- Lechery
- Mary Warren
- Massachusetts
- McCarthy
- Name
- Needle
- Parris
- Petition
- Poppet
- Proctor
- Puritan
- Putnam
- Rebecca Nurse
- Reverend
- Salem
- Spectral
- Theocracy
- Tituba
- Trial
- Witchcraft