Romeo And Juliet Compare And Contrast Pyramus And Thisbe

Throughout history, people have been writing about love that cannot be, but even with all those stories out there, some of them engaged the reader more than others. Each story that is written has the same main idea and plot, but yet they are so different. All of them show that nothing good can come for a fued or segregation.Two stories that grabbed the attention of everybody worldwide are Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, and “Pyramus and Thisbe” by Ovid. While Romeo and Juliet and “Pyramus and Thisbe” both provide a similar background and are alike in many ways, they also have very different meanings behind them. Both Romeo and Juliet and “Pyramus and Thisbe” include a love that cannot be and characters that try to find a way to get …show more content…
In Romeo and Juliet after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet the Friar says: “I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so long as is a tedious tale.”(Shakespeare 5.3.229). The Friar is saying that he is going to confess everything about their love and the situation they were in, after he does so, both the families but up statues of the opposing party in remembrance of Romeo and Juliet. In contrast, in “Pyramus and Thisbe’ it ends with the narrator saying, “With these words, she placed the dagger’s point beneath her breast, then leaned against the blade still warm with her dear lover’s blood. The gods and parents heard her prayer, and they were stirred. Her wish was granted.” (Ovid lines 148-153). When she killed herself, nobody was there to tell the families what has happened to them, therefore the wall was not taken down to our knowledge and the families had not come closer together. While both of these stories ended with huge deaths that affect us all in a very emotional way, the two authors wrote the endings for very different purposes, even though it comes off the