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Although meekness as a heavenly virtue is not wholly congruent with the dynamics of abandon, they share a similar valence in their acceptance of a greater power. It is also somewhat ironic that, in this statement, the Pearl Maiden accords God the power to punish while simultaneously highlighting his mercy (in a dynamic congruent to Lacan’s reading of Paul and the law). Thus, because one cannot trust that God will forever refrain from chiding, Pearl suggests that meekness and abandon are the appropriate responses.
Pearl invites readers to participate not merely in the construction of textual meaning, but also in the construction of Christian identity by witnessing the Dreamer’s attempts to regain his beloved Pearl Maiden and finding allegorical meaning therein. Madhavi Menon argues that “ideas of veiling and circularity . . are central to the trope of allegory in which the tropological impulse makes it impossible to arrive at a certainty that does not immediately question itself. Moreover, this deconstruction of certainty is inevitably tied .
The irony of the Dreamer’s words—an irony he fails to recognize—accentuates his belief that God will sate his desire through a reunion with the Pearl Maiden, but God has no such intention of restoring her to him. Rather, the Dreamer must endure the repeated loss of the Pearl Maiden, reenacting the separation rather than moving beyond it. Without doubt, if the Dreamer is to rejoice (“feste”) as he desires, it will be a much different celebration than he imagines. From a courtly love perspective, the Dreamer’s view of the competitive valence virtually inherent in amatory affairs is perhaps not surprising, but A BA N DONING DESIR ES 27 he merges this amatory paradigm with his construction of Christian salvation, limning both as agonistic phenomena with winners and losers.