In Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, indirectly given do the assumptions of irony exist between Hester and the community as well as with god. Irony existing within ironies and ironies aimed at everyone from anyone are all present in the writing. Hawthorne implies that all the puritans are hypocrites from his social commentary of no one sinning in the religion, yet people know they do and did in the past. Everyone in the community knows that Hester …showed first 75 words of 414 total…

…showed last 75 words of 414 total…her for two years prior to the incident) and the kids treat her with childish disrespect. This is one of many ironies present in the novel. More of them include Hester standing in the sunlight in the public ( everyone else jealous of beauty and in the dark) and how Pearl was plucked off a rose bush yet the rose bush grew from a weed ( Pearl from Hester: Good to evil: Beautiful from ugly, Blessing: Sin)