All 4 Uses of
alternative
in
The Scarlet Letter
- His position is then one of the most singularly irksome, and, in every contingency, disagreeable, that a wretched mortal can possibly occupy; with seldom an alternative of good on either hand, although what presents itself to him as the worst event may very probably be the best.
Chpt Intr. *alternative = possibility
- Under that impulse she had made her choice, and had chosen, as it now appeared, the more wretched alternative of the two.
Chpt 13
- Hester felt that the sacrifice of the clergyman's good name, and death itself, as she had already told Roger Chillingworth, would have been infinitely preferable to the alternative which she had taken upon herself to choose.
Chpt 17alternative = other possibility
- It had been determined between them that the Old World, with its crowds and cities, offered them a more eligible shelter and concealment than the wilds of New England or all America, with its alternatives of an Indian wigwam, or the few settlements of Europeans scattered thinly along the sea-board.
Chpt 20alternatives = other possibilities
Definition:
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(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility