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Archetype Of Doomed Lovers In 'Pygmalion And Galatea'

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Elisa Terman 11/15/16 PBA paragraph Ms. Kinser The archetype of doomed lovers a man and woman who are usually young, there is someone or something that stops the two from being together and something tragic happens causing one or both of the characters to die. In the myth Pygmalion and Galatea the man is a "gifted young sculptor"(Hamilton 143). This proves that one or both of the characters are young. In this type of story it also usually has someone or something that prevents the two from being together. For example in the myth Pyramus and Thisbe, a young man and young woman wanted to get married "but their parents forbade"(Hamilton 133). This shows that the parents of Pyramus and Thisbe were the ones that were preventing them from being
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