When Kino tries to fight off the thieves and protect the pearl, for instance, he ends up committing acts of evil himself, on both the thieves and his wife.
One must either bear it (as in the case of the scorpion) or avoid it (as in the case of the pearl), because to combat it only breeds more evil. Similarly, the neighbors are evil when they act upon greed over neighborly respect, and Kino is evil when he acts upon greed over love for his wife.Įvil in the novel is an omnipotent, destructive force. The doctor, for instance, is evil because he acts upon greed over human care and professional responsibility.
While the scorpion’s evil takes the form of lethal poison, man’s evil throughout the novel takes the form of overriding greed. Evil in The Pearl can appear in both man ( the doctor) and nature ( the scorpion) both evil man (the doctor) and good man ( Kino) both ugly shape (the scorpion) and beautiful shape ( the pearl). The plot of The Pearl is driven by a constant struggle between the morally opposite forces of good and evil.
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