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 committed an act that is unforgivable yet they stare upon her and make fun of her because they are a looking at themselves.…
