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What are examples of irony found in the scarlet letter?

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well in the beginning of the book there is an example of irony situational irony when the founders of the colony wanted the new land to be utopia which means a perfect place to live but the two necessities were a cemetery and a prison. so they cant get rid of death and crime. crime has been around since earth came to be.

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