The tales Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe were created by different authors and with partly the same storyline. Ovid was the creator of Pyramus and Thisbe, a story about two lovers that sneak out to be with each other. William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, a play about the grudge of two households. The lovers escape and get married, which causes lots of confusing factors. Some of the similarities between the tales were that the lovers were forbidden to see each other, so they went behind the backs of their unaware parents. In both stories, they made an escape plan to run away and be together. The last of their similar parts was that both of the couples died because of their love for one another.
In both stories Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet, they weren't allowed to be together. In Pyramus and Thisbe, two young lovers are separated by a wall and their parents forbade their love for one another. Ovid states, "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade" (947). In Romeo and Juliet, their love is separated by a long-lasting grudge between The House of Montague and The House of Capulet. Lord Capulet wanted Juliet to be with Paris, a Capulet, not Romeo, who is a family rival. Lord …show more content…
Friar Laurence states the plan, "When you’re in bed, take this vial, mix its contents with liquor, and drink. Then a cold, sleep-inducing drug will run through your veins, and your pulse will stop. Your flesh will be cold, and you’ll stop breathing. The red in your lips and your cheeks will turn pale, and your eyes will shut" (4.1.4). In Pyramus and Thisbe, the two young lovers decide through the chink in the wall to meet in "The Tomb of Ninus." Ovid writes, "They decided that that very night they would try to slip away and steal out through the city into the open country where at last they could be together in freedom"
In both stories Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet, they weren't allowed to be together. In Pyramus and Thisbe, two young lovers are separated by a wall and their parents forbade their love for one another. Ovid states, "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade" (947). In Romeo and Juliet, their love is separated by a long-lasting grudge between The House of Montague and The House of Capulet. Lord Capulet wanted Juliet to be with Paris, a Capulet, not Romeo, who is a family rival. Lord …show more content…
Friar Laurence states the plan, "When you’re in bed, take this vial, mix its contents with liquor, and drink. Then a cold, sleep-inducing drug will run through your veins, and your pulse will stop. Your flesh will be cold, and you’ll stop breathing. The red in your lips and your cheeks will turn pale, and your eyes will shut" (4.1.4). In Pyramus and Thisbe, the two young lovers decide through the chink in the wall to meet in "The Tomb of Ninus." Ovid writes, "They decided that that very night they would try to slip away and steal out through the city into the open country where at last they could be together in freedom"