Some literary elements Nathaniel Hawthorne used in his novel are imagery and irony. He used imagery to describe the prison and the rosebush, the forest, etc. Irony is one of my favorite literary elements he used.
Some ironic situations he created in The Scarlet Letter:
- Dimmesdale is a minister who commits one of the biggest sins in his town.
- Hester was scolded by the townspeople on the scaffold for commiting adultery. Dimmesdale questioned her who the baby's father is. Later, Dimmesdale stands on the same scaffold confessing he is the father.
- The meteor shower that is shaped in the letter "A". The townspeople thought it stood for "angel" because they though the angels had come to get the govenor after his death.
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