# The Pearl — Character guide

> Key figures in The Pearl by Anonymous.

- [The Lamb](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/the_lamb.md): The Lamb stands at the center of the dreamer's revelation: the Father sets a flawless pearl as token of His blood shed for peace, and the maiden in Paradise calls Him her spotless Lord, her Destiny, who chose her in marr
- [Jesus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/jesus.md): Jesus is the object of the dreamer's devotion and the interpretive key to his vision, invoked by the maiden as 'my Lamb, my Lord, my dear Jewel, my Joy, my Love, my Bliss so free.' She recounts His mild humility through 
- [The Dreamer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/the_dreamer.md): The dreamer enters the poem as a 'joyless jeweler,' mourning a pearl that slipped through the grass and vanished into earth's jaws, convinced his loss is final and his grief irreparable. When the maiden appears in pearl-
- [The Pearl Maiden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/the_pearl_maiden.md): She appears beside the stream in white investiture bordered with pearls, a flawless gem upon her breast, and greets her father with courtly grace before correcting his grief-stricken theology. Calling herself no peerless
- [John the Apostle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/john_the_apostle.md): John functions as the poem's scriptural authority, invoked by the maiden to confirm that the brides of the Lamb reign in bliss, an hundred and forty thousand, as he beheld them on the hill of Zion clad in bright array. H
- [The Prince](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/the_prince.md): A noble figure mentioned in the poem, possibly a patron or allegorical character.
- [Chaucer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/chaucer.md): Historical poet referenced as an authority or contemporary, not a character in the narrative.
- [A Judge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_pearl_se/characters/a_judge.md): A figure in a parable or vision, representing divine judgment, not a sustained character.

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