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    Females Feeling More Pain As I was reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the stories “Narcissus and Echo” and “Pyramus and Thisbe” stood out to me the most. The stories brought me to a time of my life that was very dark. I went to my best friend’s house one day, and told me that she was in love with an ex-boyfriend of mine, who happen to be her neighbor. She was going to ask him out as soon as he comes out of his house. She looked so happy, but I knew this guy and I did not want to see her hurt. Before I could tell her anything, the boy came out, and she was running over to him. I had to watch as in a nano-second her expression changed from happy to this painful, hurt look. Slowly, she walked back to her house. She went right past me, and walked into the bathroom. I waited a few moments, then entered to almost die at the sight in front of me. She had taken her razor, slashing her arm, and saying, “I am unworthy,” over and over again. I pulled the razor away before she can do anymore damage, but she tried to take it back. I had to smack her, and say, “No guy is worth your life!” The stories just reminded me of all this pain. The pain that my friend felt in her relationship helped me understand how Echo feels in “Narcissus and Echo” when Echo was rejected by Narcissus. Echo just wanted to hide away from the pain. Echo eventually dies from the pain, because he pain becomes too much for her to handle. In “Pryamus and Thisbe”, Thisbe come back to the tree in the graveyard to find her…

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    In The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Ovid interprets etiological myths focusing on desires’ impact on the human form. I will focus on the daughters of Minyas and the stories they tell during this essay. All of the characters in these passages have a desire that cannot be fulfilled because their human form or human social conventions place limitations on them. Refusing to live with their desires unfulfilled, the characters’ attempt to push the limits, but are always met with resistance. Unable to…

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    of lovers whose affection for each other would eventually lead to their deaths. Along with the deaths of the title characters’, there are multiple similarities in the two stories. Location, separation, and communication are all ties between these two tragedies. The location of the lovers' death in Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are similar. In Shakespeare’s story, Romeo and Juliet both commit suicide in the Tomb where Juliet’s ancestors are laid to rest. Juliet says, "Yea, noise? Then…

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    there are many decisions made about relationships. In Romeo and Juliet, one example of this is when Romeo and Juliet decide to marry in secret. Another example is when Romeo decides to kill himself when he thinks that Juliet is dead. There are also examples of these decisions in the second source, Pyramus and Thisbe. One example is when Pyramus and Thisbe decide to meet at Ninus’ Tomb. Another example is when Pyramus and Thisbe decide to stay in a relationship, even when their parents forbid it.…

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    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…

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    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…

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    “They agreed to meet at a well-known place, the tomb of Ninus, under a tree there, a tall mulberry full of snow-white berries, near which a cool spring bubbled up” (Ovid 488). They made a rash decision to sneak away into a dangerous forest, with no concept of what time the other would be there, nor did they know what to do once they met. Once this bad decision was made, Thisbe had gone too early and dropped her cloak on the ground. “Thisbe to escape, but as she fled she dropped her cloak” (Ovid…

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    Also like Romeo and Juliet the two devise a plan to see each other. They plan to meet “at a well-known place, the Tomb of Ninus….” (Page 488) Thisbe arrives first and as she is waiting a lion comes. She escapes but drops her coat. The tomb is referred to as “well-known” so Pyramus and Thisbe should’ve known that lions were around there. Both made a bad decision picking a dangerous place. The lion mauled the coat she dropped. When Pyramus arrives and sees the tattered coat, he concludes that…

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    One thing in common between the three, is love makes fools of them all. Each woman goes against a masculine figure in their tale, whether it be written out or implied. Titania has a changeling child, whom she loves dearly and is raising in place of its dead mother; her friend. Oberon, her husband, demands she give him the child. Being a stubborn personality, she refuses. Hermia rejects her father, Egeus’s, will for her to marry Demetrius. She even refuses to go through the Duke of Athens,…

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    Babylon was mentioned by the Scythian as being one among many conquests, but Marlowe presents it as the most important and epic conquest. He refers to the mythic site - what the governor calls this eternised city Babylon. (p.124) Babylon was supposed to be the location of the Tower of Babel, symbolizing human power and arrogance, is suggested in Tamburlaine’s image of “stately buildings” and “lofty pillars, higher than the clouds.” (p.123) Tamburlaine, by invoking “Belus, Ninus, and great…

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