The Myth of Pyramus and Thisbe

In the two stories The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisby they both were star-crossed lovers and made their own choices throughout the stories. For example they chose to love each other even though they knew it wouldn't end well. Personal choices affect the characters more than destiny because they decided to get married and they killed themselves.

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.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we meet the characters and how their actions led to a tragedy. Romeo and Juliet met, end up falling in love, and – since both cannot dream of living without the other – take their lives. While the play ends in a tragic death for both characters, it was their own reckless decisions; though others might believe that it was destiny that played a large role in the lovers’ downfall. However, the majority of the text evidence points to them making their own choices leading to their demise.

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.

He takes the risk of leaving his friends and intrude dangerous territory for a Montague so that he could keep his new found feeling of love alive. Romeos immense love for Juliet drove him to take a risk that may have caused him his life, but instead he found the love of his life and he was able to express his feelings true feeling with the girls he loved. William seems to be saying that taking high risks can lead to big rewards. Shakespeare is saying that in order to truly love you will have to take risks and that the risks will be worth it. Romeo understood the risk he was taking “And the place of death, considering who thou art. If any of my kinsmen find thee here” (Romeo and Juliet 2.2) and he was willing to take the risk so that he could see her and express his love to her “And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me” (Romeo and Juliet 2.2) By taking the risk of going into Capulet territory to speak to Juliet, Romeo gets to confess his feeling to her and he is finally able to find the true love of his live which leads them both to be happy. To Romeo the risk was definitely worth taking as he got what he desired, William shows us that risks are positive and worth

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.

The tragic hero of a story is not always the conflict resolver or the heroic lifesaver. In reality, protagonists such as the one in this play are flawed; their flaws can end up hurting others rather than helping them. In Shakespeare’s “Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” Romeo, who portrays the male protagonist, has a fatal flaw of impulsivity that influences him to make hasty decisions based on love. Romeo and Juliet, two lovers tied between a family feud, attempt to rewrite their fate as a couple. However, by doing so, characters such as Romeo end up setting themselves up for tragedy due to their impulsive actions. From marrying a blood feud enemy due to love at first sight to murdering cousin-in-laws, the tragic hero involved Shakespeare’s play

The plots of Pyramus and Thisbe and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are very similar to one another. For example, it says directly in Pyramus and Thisbe: “But marriage was forbidden by their parents. Yet there’s one thing that parents can’t prevent: The flame of love that burned within them” (Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe 11-13). This directly correlates with the plot of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, with Shakespeare writing “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine. I gave thee mine before thou didst request it” (Shakespeare II.ii. 127-128). This shows that both couples in each story are in love, which shows a parallel in plot structure. Furthermore, Pyramus and Thisbe also has another plot similarity with The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: the death of each couple in the

Romeo at the beginning of the play doesn't have the most level-headed understand of what real love is and as an example at the beginning of the play he has "fallen in love" with Rosaline and proclaimed that she is the perfect example of a women. Then later on completely forgets about her after seeing Juliet. This gives the reader the sense that Romeo is not very deep in his feelings for women and has a more superficial idea of what love is. Throughout the play though Shakespeare was able to convey how Romeo has matured in his attitude toward love from a shallow desire to a profound and intense passion. His fidelity toward Juliet is quite abstract in the sense that he loves her enough to commit suicide because he feels that he is not able to continue his lie without her which is a demonstration of his faithfulness and loyalty to her. In Romeo and Juliet Romeo is driven by his emotions a lot of the time when making decisions. Examples of him doing this are that because of anger compels him to kill Tybalt in a duel to avenge to death of his friend and despair causes him to take his own life upon hearing of Juliet's death. He also is driven many times by his love for Juliet. Love forces him to make the reckless decision to sneak into the garden of his enemy's daughter and risk death only to catch a glimpse of her. These intense depths of feeing are what drive the character in this story

Romeo is one of the main characters in the play. Romeo is romantic and has a passion to love and be loved. He uses words to express his love. Firstly, for example, in Act 1 Scene 5, “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand. To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.” (W. Shakespeare 837) Romeo longs to be with Juliet, and in a way, invites her to his love.

Romeo and Juliet is not a love play but in fact a play of desperation and obsession. Many times in the play it shows that Romeo is desperate. For instance, when Romeo crashes the party at the Capulet's house to see Rosaline and instantly "falls in love" with her. What we see here is Romeo's desperateness.

Within layers of bloodshed, mutiny, and abhorrence, bloomed the tragedy of two young lovers. From the very first time they met, they immediately became infatuated with each other. In 1597, William Shakespeare published one of his most well-known plays. It reveals the story of a forbidden love that sparks between the son and daughter of two feuding families in Verona, Italy. After merely hours of experiencing “love at first sight”, they elope in secret. Their young lives are tragically cut short when toxic brawls and the deaths of their companions shortly bring misfortune to them.  In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates through his use of dramatic irony and the rapid pace of the plot that events should naturally follow their own pace without the intervention of other influences. Furthermore, other interruptions may negatively impact the movement of situations and damage the original outcome.

Also, in Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe, a huge part that plays throughout both tales is the showing of miscommunication and misunderstandings. In Romeo and Juliet, Act V Scene II Lines 17-19 Friar Lawrence speaks, “Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice, but full of charge, of dear import, and the neglecting it may do much danger.” Even though the entire play is of miscommunication, this by far is the worst as since Romeo did not receive that letter, it led to the deaths of Juliet and Romeo. Pyramus and Thisbe on the other hand seemed to have their entire plan worked out right through communication, yet it was the misunderstanding that led to both their deaths. The faults of Pyramus assuming Thisbe was dead, led to his suicide which connected to Thisbe’s suicide as well.

His single mindedness and impulsive action make him incapable of loving anyone else. Above all, his loss of perseverance allows him to become hopeless to achieve what he desires: mutual love. All in all, the idea that truly determination can allow for an individual to achieve what they desire is conversely depicted through Romeo’s disposition earlier in pay as his decision on giving up consequently destroys his goals and desires of ever loving again, henceforth blocking out happiness and welcoming despair with open arms.

Throughout the course of the play, it is revealed in many ways this is a story of artificial devotion in which Juliet is in love, and Romeo is merely infatuated. Although Shakespeare is known to many as a “love expert”, the story of Romeo and Juliet is equivalent to an impersonal Valentine’s Day card. Love is all around, but true love is something very hard to find. Due to the lack of support for a truly love based relationship, it is easily seen that this is not a case of true love, but just a partial