Compare And Contrast Pryamus And Thisbe

Ovid demonstrates in his writing how too much passion in love leads to folly. In the circumstance of Semele, Atalanta and Hippomenes and Pryamus and Thisbe loving too strongly is what actually destroyed their love. Passion may produce romance in the beginning or not harm a purely sexual relationship but Ovid teaches that unbridled passion will destroy love. Pyramus and Thisbe show a pure young love. Their relationship evidences true feelings by their constant return to talk through the crack of the wall. The effort would not have been nearly as great had this been merely a correspondence of lust. “ ‘But in this tiny crack may our great loves, invisibly to us, meet and mingle.’ Then each would kiss the crack in the cold plaster.” After …show more content…
He did not force himself upon her, they both showed consent and tenderness, this can be shown in Ovid’s writing. “She asked her diving lover for a love gift.” They were lovers meaning that they were continually together not only one time and she didn’t before for a favor but rather asked for a gift to demonstrate his affection. As if this were her right as his lover he readily agreed to grant her anything. Within this twisted affair both lovers are so entwined in the passion that they miss the plot that brings their end. Semele being slightly dimwitted asks Jupiter to reveal himself saying, “ ‘I want to see you,’ she said, ‘exactly as Juno sees you when she opens her arms and body to you. As if I were Juno, come to me naked in your divine form.” She asks for something sure to kill her and has already made Jupiter swear to give it to her. Only a moment before had he said “Whatever you want—name it you shall have it. I swear on the terror who holds all heaven in awe, the god of hell’s river, you shall have it.” Jupiter being a god ought to have known better but in the passionate moment he granted a right that probably would not have granted to anyone besides his lover and by fulfilling his word he killed