According to Hale who is now at the Proctors’ house, Rebecca is--yet again another accused woman--“trafficking” with the Devil.

Hale continues to compliment John about being in church with his three boys on the Sabbath.

As John recites (somewhat poorly) the Commandments to Hale, the one Elizabeth points out is the stealing one.

Giles announces that Rebecca and Francis Nurse are both put in jail.

Cheever, our clerk of the court, gets bewildered about the needles. It’s a needle, I say!

One significance of the “poppet” scene is that with hysteria comes needless validation of proof and absence of reason.

“Is the accuser always holy now? … I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem” (73) shouts Abigail.

In relation to this play, we can see that one can easily become blind to evil even in the pursuit of good.

Who said the previous vengeance quotation?

At the end of Act (II), the audience finds out that Mary Warren cannot wait to charge and tell on Abigail in court.