What are some examples of dramatic irony in the scarlet letter?
In Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” when Hester is in the governor’s garden to see to it that Pearl is not taken away from her, she asks the Reverend Dimmesdale to support her position. This is an example of dramatic irony as the reader knows that Dimmesdale and Hester are partners in sin, but the characters do not.
