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The Doctor, unnamed in the novella, is a symbol of wealth, greed and exploitation. He is repulsive, fat, and also foreign-born, a native of France. Before the pearl is found, he refuses to heal Coyotito because the family is poor, though it would be easy for him to do so.
The Scorpion Demoness (蠍子精), whose true form is a pipa-sized giant scorpion, is a yaoguai based in Pipa Cave (琵琶洞) on Venom Mountain (毒敵山). Shortly after leaving Women's Country, Tang Sanzang is abducted by the yaoguai and taken to her lair, where she tries to seduce him to marry her.
Symbolism Images Pearl (寳珠, bǎozhū), or flaming pearl [note 6] Wealth and success. [15]: 123 The pearl regularly appears on textiles and rank badge. [15]: 123 By the mid-Qing dynasty, the pearl evolved into the flaming pearl, [15]: 123 which represents the sun, wisdom, power, and an imperial treasure. [16]: 132
Scorpion as symbol. More than 1,500 scorpion species occur worldwide and, understandably, their cultural and symbolic meanings differ. Scorpion symbolism ranges from protection, transformation ...
Kino killed the scorpion and prayed, but he prayed for money to pay the doctor, not for his child to recover. The child recovered, and Kino got the money. The money (the pearl) destroyed everything Kino valued in this World. Kino ended up throwing the Pearl back in to the sea.
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
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The Hymn of the Pearl (also Hymn of the Soul, Hymn of the Robe of Glory or Hymn of Judas Thomas the Apostle) is a passage of the apocryphal Acts of Thomas. In that work, originally written in Syriac, the Apostle Thomas sings the hymn while praying for himself and fellow prisoners. Some scholars believe the hymn predates the Acts, as it only ...