Forbidden Romance Mythology

By analyzing the use of symbolism, personifications, irony and foreshadowing by the two authors, it will become evident that their protagonists share similarities when dealing with the recurring theme of the tragedy of unrequited love.

The main reason this love was forbidden was because of the fighting between the parents, without this factor, they may have had a shot at a life together. It was quite obvious that the decisions not only affected the teens

The stories of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe both talk of young lovers willing to be together no matter what the consequences may be. The love between the two couples was so strong that they were would die for their lovers. Although, the sequence of events that lead to the tragic endings of these stories have their differences as well.

Pyramus and Thisbe and Romeo and Juliet are two tragic romance stories that are comparable in many ways. The similar concepts and elements reflected in the two works portray themes of love and tragedy, while also expressing the same types of characters and events. The works of the two writers, Ovid and Shakespeare, were written in completely different time periods, but are remarkably comparable in the senses of character purpose, elements, theme, and events.

I think that these two stories represent the inner struggle that we all have in our endeavors to achieve perfection, and hide our own faults from the world. These efforts will eventually drag some of to our ends.

Since the beginning of time people have been intrigued by the story of “two star-crossed lovers”, those who long to be together but never can. Such is the case of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the collaboration work, West Side Story. The purpose of this paper is to show the similarities and differences between these two tragic love stories.

These important stories have similar archetypes of the devil figure, which tempts the heros. They both go through a hero’s journey that is not so easy. In the “Odyssey”, Odysseus and his men are trying to get home (Beers). Adam and his wife, Eve, are helping to create life on earth in “In the Beginning” (Beers). Similarly, they both have the same situation of not giving

In the final analysis, characters from both stories carried with them a dream that inevitably led them to irrational thinking and an ultimate downfall. In simple

Starting with setting, mythological stories often occur in historical time periods. Alongside remote and mysterious, the historical setting aids the believability of the story. When a work of fiction takes place in a time period that does not match the reader’s,

In this time in China, the role that women and men had were very different from each other. Women were expected to be quite, obedient, and respectful. While men were the provider, the intellectual and the decision maker in the family. In Shen Fu and his wife, Yun marriage it started out like the typical relationship in eightieth century China, each one fulfilling the roles that society had in place for them. But as they became to know each other more, Shen Fu saw Yun real personality and wanted someone to experience life, so he started to encourage her to be herself and told her she didn’t have to live up to this gender stereotypes for women. They both were always

However, what would love be without tribulations? In middle age love stories disastrous consequences provide readers with high expectations for the lovers within their risky relationships. In the story of “Equatin”, a woman falls in love with her mistress and the two ponder up a plan to kill her husband by scalding him in boiling water (59). Unfortunately, for Equatin and his lover, the king discovers there secret and the two are scorched to death.

The first story is a tale named Gilgamesh, which is about a man named Gilgamesh or also know in Uruk as king. Gilgamesh was no ordinary man; he was two-thirds god and one-third man. Even though Gilgamesh was not only beautiful and strong, but behind the king's doors he was raping women that were either married or locked eyes on each other or overworking his servants, and

The two stories tell about a king who is more like a demigod than a person or a God. They both anger a god who has

However the paradox continues because their love cannot ascend to its ultimate form, as each will refuse their love by the social desires of the time.

The time periods that each text is set in varies and it is therefore interesting to note that this does not change the fundamentals, we are prepared to make sacrifices for love. All the characters were forced by restrictions of the time to make difficult decisions and in these cases they were willing to give their lives, either physically or emotionally, for their love. It shows the extremity of love, that it is worth more to these literary