Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” reflects the nature of love in a different way than most of him stories. In this story, Ovid portrays that the power of love is blinding and results in people making bad decisions. In this context, blinding means that love overpowers logic. Referring to Pyramus Ovid quotes, “He never doubted that he knew all… Thisbe was dead”(106). In this excerpt, Ovid depicts that Pyramus only has one view, which is that Thisbe has been killed. His despair has clouded his thinking and prevents him from considering any other kind of conclusion. Not only does Pyramus’s one-dimensional mindset make him kill himself, but is what causes Thisbe to do suicide as well. In addition, the couple’s fate was already decided the moment they
