Essay Comparing Romeo And Juliet And Pyramus

It seems as if romance novels are always the chosen books for us to read at school. Guys hate it, but girls absolutely love it. The guy gets the girl, they get married, they die happily. That is what the girls like to hear. But wait! What is better than the romance tragedies we are given? The two most loved romantic tragedies we are presented at school are Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid. These two stories have the young lovers but the tragic death of the lovers. As we look closely at the stories, we can see that they are very similar. Separation, communication, and death for the other are the main, similar factors between Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe. In both stories, there is some form of separation between the two lovers. Palpable or not, separation is there. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet are separated by an Ancient Grudge between the two families. As it says in the prologue to Romeo and Juliet, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.” This grudge has been there even before Romeo and Juliet fell into a deep love. No matter

At the end of Romeo and Juliet we see how Romeo thinks that Juliet has died. Therefore, he goes to an apothecary and buys himself poison in order for him to kill himself. When Romeo dies Juliet wakes up to find his body. She then stabs herself for Romeo and dies. It reads, “O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (5.3.182-183) They died so they could be with each other. In Pyramus and Thisbe, a tragedy quite the same strikes. Pyramus thought a lion attacked Thisbe so he decides to stab himself. As we can guess, Thisbe was still alive. She comes to find Pyramus’s dead body. She stabs herself after that. In both of these stories, each of the lovers lost their lives in order to be with each other. Even death could not separate