Pyramus And Thisbe Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet
Romeo & Juliet/”Pyramus and Thisbe” Comparison
“Pyramus and Thisbe” and Romeo & Juliet are very riveting stories, from their concepts to their endings there are many similarities and differences. The pairs of lovers experience forbidden love and make difficult choices based on what they’re given. In both narratives the lovers end up lifeless from their own naïve choices: and as a difference Romeo was already dead when Juliet awakens and Pyramus gets once last glimpse of Thisbe before he succumbs.
In Romeo & Juliet both lovers are star-crossed meaning they are destined to experience bad luck. As the story plays out, there is major foreshadowing of their fate. Juliet fakes her death, so she doesn’t have to marry Paris, her family approved lover. When the letter does not reach Romeo, he assumes she was dead. With this assumption, he wishes to kill himself, so he doesn’t have to live without her. He decides to purchase poison from a poor apothecary, so he could commit to the deed. At Juliet’s death bed Romeo says “Here’s to my love …show more content…
Juliet wakes up to see her lover and decides to join him in his journey. Juliet speaks” What’s here a cup, closed in my truelove’s hand? Poison, I see hath been his timeless end”(Shakespeare V.iii. 161-162). This quote demonstrates how Juliet awakens to see her lover dead, and how Romeo died before Juliet woke from her medicine induced sleep. In “Pyramus and Thisbe” Pyramus gets one last look at Thisbe before death takes him away. Just after Pyramus stabbed himself with a sword thinking his lover had passed, Thisbe encountered him and spoke ”At the sound of her name he opened his heavy eyes for one look. Then death closed them”(Ovid 949). Pyramus passed away with a look and realization that his lover was still alive. He died realizing that he did a thoughtless act and he couldn’t change that. While Romeo died thinking his lover was dead and he just joined
“Pyramus and Thisbe” and Romeo & Juliet are very riveting stories, from their concepts to their endings there are many similarities and differences. The pairs of lovers experience forbidden love and make difficult choices based on what they’re given. In both narratives the lovers end up lifeless from their own naïve choices: and as a difference Romeo was already dead when Juliet awakens and Pyramus gets once last glimpse of Thisbe before he succumbs.
In Romeo & Juliet both lovers are star-crossed meaning they are destined to experience bad luck. As the story plays out, there is major foreshadowing of their fate. Juliet fakes her death, so she doesn’t have to marry Paris, her family approved lover. When the letter does not reach Romeo, he assumes she was dead. With this assumption, he wishes to kill himself, so he doesn’t have to live without her. He decides to purchase poison from a poor apothecary, so he could commit to the deed. At Juliet’s death bed Romeo says “Here’s to my love …show more content…
Juliet wakes up to see her lover and decides to join him in his journey. Juliet speaks” What’s here a cup, closed in my truelove’s hand? Poison, I see hath been his timeless end”(Shakespeare V.iii. 161-162). This quote demonstrates how Juliet awakens to see her lover dead, and how Romeo died before Juliet woke from her medicine induced sleep. In “Pyramus and Thisbe” Pyramus gets one last look at Thisbe before death takes him away. Just after Pyramus stabbed himself with a sword thinking his lover had passed, Thisbe encountered him and spoke ”At the sound of her name he opened his heavy eyes for one look. Then death closed them”(Ovid 949). Pyramus passed away with a look and realization that his lover was still alive. He died realizing that he did a thoughtless act and he couldn’t change that. While Romeo died thinking his lover was dead and he just joined