This love results by the creation of Pearl. ... Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. ... Pearl knows she is the reason her mother wears the letter. ... Pearl is the symbol showing the sin committed. ... Pearl was and always will be an innocent child. ...
Pearl wanted to know where she came from and Hester, afraid of her child being becoming evil, tried to convert Pearl so she can be "good" and possibly be accepted by the townspeople. ... Pearl showed love and compassion to the ones dear to her. Her father was barely had a presence in her life yet Pearl loved him and shedded tears for him. ... For instance, since she is a women she could not persuade the Governor to not take away Pearl. ... Pearl is the living embodiment of Hester's sin and why her life is terribl...
It impacts the relationship with Pearl, the illegitimate child he fathered through this act, and her perception of God and man. ... It is not that he was not a father, for Pearl was the evidence of the act he committed. ... Children today, share the same emotions and thoughts that Pearl experienced. ... Pearl's view of God was directly shaped by her father. ... As if this was not enough she tries to get Dimmesdale to run away with her and Pearl while being married to Chillingworth. ...
Cleopatra is often described as a decadent foreign woman and a noble ruler. She is leader of Egypt, which is part of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra rules her people but has to answer to Rome. In the play Rome and Egypt are clearly define. Rome being defined by the typical male virtues of war and ho...
She points out that while we would want God's will to be all that is good, "God's will is-the bud of the rose for your hair, The ring for your hand and the pearl for your breast" (804), that isn't always what God's will is. ...
"The true living world of fire is dark, throbbing, darker than blood. Our luminous world that we go by is only the white lining of this- (Dionys to Daphne in "The Ladybird-). What narrative strategies does Lawrence employ to convey this sense of a world "darker than blood-? How do these strategies organise his explorations of sexual relations in Three Novellas? Although each of Lawrence's stories in the Three Novellas are fundamentally different in their narrative content and characters, each uses central metaphors, loaded with meaning, and similar narrative patterns, which function to...
