Pyramus And Thisbe By Edith Hamilton

Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers whose houses side by side to each other. They were considered so beautiful that “If you searched all the East, you’d find no girl with greater charm than Thisbe; and no boy in Babylon was handsomer than Pyramus” (Ovid 111). Overtime from living

In the myth of Phaethon as retold by Edith Hamilton, a boy learns that he's the sun of a god he abuses abuses the power and pays with his life. This story takes place in the sky at the sun gods palace. The story begins when a young boy ventures off to the palace of the sun. There he meets the sun god,Phaethon asks the sun god if he's his father. The sun god says yes I am. As a rule the sun god swears on the Styx a river that runs through the underworld. Phaethon says to the sun god give me your car to drive. However The sun warns Phaethon of the dangers "only the sun god can drive the chariot". So then Phaethon ignores his caution and sets off in his fathers chariot. Soon Phaethon loses control and eventually the world gets set on fire. Phaethon

Since Pyramus and Thisbe were not love at first sight and had loved each other for a long time, maybe

Although the root of most conflict in the play is the trouble of romance and the play involves many romantic elements, I could rightfully not tell you that is truly a love story. You see, my goal was to distance the audience from the emotional aspect of the play in order to make fun of those in love and suffering. The tone of this play is meant to be lighthearted to the point where the audience does not even doubt that all will end well and can thus freely enjoy the comedic aspect of the play without worrying about what might happen next. Once again, this is reflected in the play-within-a-play. Although the plot of Pyramus and Thisbe is meant to be one of tragedy and love, the product is quite comical and therefore the story does not seem quite as tragic to the

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The Golden Goblet, by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, describes a story about a boy named Ranother that lives in ancient Egypt with his wicked half brother, Gebu. Although Ranofer dreamed of being a goldsmith, he couldn’t because Gebu would get annoyed and because of that he would beat him. Everything had changed when Gebu suddenly was getting joyful. Ranofer was super shocked because Gebu fed him more and didn’t beat him. Later in the book, Ranofer found a golden goblet hidden inside of Gebu’s room.

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Ovid’s Pyramus & Thisbe, and William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet are both stories about ill-fated love. With each story we can see that there is a tragic couple, the female, Thisbe represents Juliet, while the male, Pyramus represents Romeo, vise versa for each. In Pyramus & Thisbe, the two lovers communicate through the small chink in the wall. In Romeo & Juliet, the two lovers communicate through the Nurse by sending messages back and forth. In Romeo & Juliet, the meeting place is Friar Lawrence’s Cell, this represents the Tomb of Ninus in Pyramus & Thisbe, which is where they met up. Lastly, the deceiver in both stories is the main reason the tragedies happened.

Both sets of parents of this young couple considered them too young to marry and stopped them seeing each other. However, the pair made arrangements to meet secretly by a mulberry tree with white berries. When Thisbe arrived at the appointed place, a lion sprang out from some bushes and she ran away in fright. Unfortunately, her veil fluttered to the ground as she ran and the lion, bloody from its latest kill, pounced on it. A short time later Pyramus arrived, saw his beloved's bloody veil and believed that she had been killed. Totally distraught, and unable to face life without her, he threw himself on his sword. As he lay dying, Thisbe returned, took his sword and killed herself. The blood of the tragic pair coloured the berries of the mulberry tree red, and so they remain to this day. Some suggest that Zeus placed Thisbe's veil in the heavens as Coma

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