Pyramus And Thisbe's Things Fall Apart

He Pyramus, the most handsome of youth and she Thisbe the loveliest of all the East lived in Babylon the houses were so close together you could practically hear what your neighbor was saying. Pyramus and Thisbe growing up right next to each other learned to love one another. They wanted to get married but their families forbid it to ever happen. “Love however can not be forbidden” (105). It was impossible to keep these two who were crazy for eachother apart. In the wall of the houses was a crack that the lovers found they would whisper back and forth to each other. “The hateful wall of separated them” (105). Each of the lovers would press on the wall with their lips for a kiss that would not go through. Pyramus and Thisbe finally agreed that every night they would try and slip away into the country where the two lovers could at last be with each other. That night the lovers slipped away to be together but complications got in the way. They agreed on meeting at the well known mulberry tree that night. Pyramus who made his way there waited for Thisbe. Thisbe came as fast as she could but by the time she got there it was two late. Stains of blood were all over the white mulberry fruits. Praymus body was lying there under the tree. Thisbe who was heart broken threw herself in the same sword and killed herself too …show more content…
It is when Thisbe finds Pyramus dead by the mulberry tree and she then stabs herself so they could be together. In the back of the painting you could see mulberry trees. Pyramus and Thisbe are the main characters of the myth and that is why the title is “Pyramus and Thisbe.” The interrelationships in this myth is that the two lovers are forbid to be together but they slip away through the night so they can be alone at lasts. I believe the artist was trying to capture the part of them finally being able to be