Compare And Contrast Pyramus And Thisbe By Edith Hamilton

Edith Hamilton’s “Pyramus and Thisbe,” a short story inside his novel Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros, is a story of two young lovers forbidden to marry each other because of their families’ decisions. This story very similar to the story of Romeo and Juliet, containing two young lovers that wanted to be with each other but were separated. The story begins talking about the two lovers and how their families have them separated from each other. At night Pyramus and Thisbe would whisper through a crack in the wall and talk about their love. One night they planned on running away and getting married. They decided on meeting at the Tomb of Ninus under a mulberry tree, the next night Thisbe was the first to sneak out and go to the tomb. She very stealthily got to the tomb and waited for Pyramus to get there. While she was waiting a lion illuminated by the moonlight appeared with its mouth still bloody from a recent kill. Terrified Thisbe ran off, but as she fled she dropped her cloak. A few minutes later Pyramus arrived wondering where Thisbe was, then he saw the lion ripping apart the cloak with its bloody jaws. Pyramus came to the conclusion that Thisbe is dead, as the lion left he picked up what was left of the cloak and started kissing it as he walked over to the mulberry tree. He then decided to kill himself rather to live the rest of his life without Thisbe. He stabbed himself with his sword in his side, the blood spurted up onto the mulberries and dyed them a dark red. Thisbe …show more content…
Pyramus was naïve because he hardly spent time observing the lion and Thisbe’s shawl, and then he made such a rash decision. Thisbe is tragic, because she is so overcome by grief and sorrow that she decides to kill herself like Pyramus did. An epithet I created was Pyramus and Thisbe the Inseparable. I created this epithet because Pyramus and Thisbe wanted to be together no matter what, even if it lead to