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The Pearl

The Pearl. Theme Symbol Motif Parable Allegory. Themes in The Pearl. Theme: Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary work. The Roles of Fate and Agency in Shaping Human Life.

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The Pearl

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  1. The Pearl Theme Symbol Motif Parable Allegory

  2. Themes in The Pearl Theme: Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary work.

  3. The Roles of Fate and Agency in Shaping Human Life • The novella depicts a world in which, for the most part, humans shape their own destines. They provide for themselves, follow their own desires, and make their own plans. At the same time, forces beyond human control, such as chance, accident, and the gods, can sweep in at any moment and, for good or evil, completely change the course of an individual’s life.

  4. Colonial Society’s Oppression of Native Cultures • The European colonizers that govern Kino and the native people are shown to bring about the destruction of the native society’s innocence, piety, and purity.

  5. Greed as a Destructive Force • As Kino seeks to gain wealth and status through the pearl, he transforms from a happy, contented father to a savage criminal, demonstrating the way ambition and greed destroy innocence.

  6. Motifs in The Pearl • Definition: Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

  7. Nature Imagery • Steinbeck depicts the natural world as a realm that mirrors or parallels the human world. The work’s nature imagery reflects both the natural world’s idyllic innocence and the natural world’s darker qualities of struggles and flight.

  8. Kino’s Songs • Throughout the novel, whenever Kino has a particularly powerful feeling or instinct, he hears a song in his head that corresponds to that feeling. The songs point to Steinbeck’s original conception of The Pearl as a film project; in a motion picture, the songs

  9. Symbols in The Pearl • Definition: Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

  10. The Pearl • The novella’s central symbol. • material value, greed, destruction

  11. The Scorpion • Represents the destruction of innocence.

  12. Canoe • Represents a link to cultural tradition

  13. The Hut • Represents poverty

  14. Parable/Allegory • Parable: a simple story that relays a moral lesson • Allegory: stories in which characters, objects, and events hold fixed symbolic meaning.

  15. Possible Morals of the Story • The Struggle to Persevere • The Fallacy of the American Dream • The Effects of Colonialism on Native Cultures • Greed Is the Root of All Evil

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