Edith Hamilton uses conflict to develop Thisbe as dramatic and irrational in the face of undying love.

Pyramus and Thisbe cannot be together due to familial tensions that they had no part in.Any rational person would, of course, attempt to speak with the family and work to dismantle the hatred. Instead, Pyramus and Thisbe decide to ”steal out through the city into the open country,” (136) as a way to be together despite their families. Does this sound like the way a rational person would think? She has decided the only thing she can do is to run away, to a place she doesn’t know, with someone she hasn’t actually had the opportunity to get to know. The irrationality continues when she and Pyramus are trying to rendezvous, when she “ventured