In this essay I will analyze Romeo and Juliet and “Pyramus and Thisbe” and show their similarities and differences in personal choices. These two texts are so closely related through love and through misunderstandings. In Romeo and Juliet and “Pyramus and Thisbe” they both end with terrible tragedies. In Romeo and Juliet the terrible tragedy is Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he kills himself, when Juliet awakes and sees Romeo’s dead body she then kills herself too. “Pyramus and Thisbe” kinda ends the same way, but Thisbe runs away from a lioness and leaves her cloak, which made Pyramus think that the lioness killed her, he then killed himself, when she came back and saw his dead body she killed herself. There is a love connection between …show more content…
In “Pyramus and Thisbe” the misunderstanding was when Thisbe was running away and dropped her cloak, Pyramus then found it and he jumped to a conclusion that the lioness killed her. “Pyramus and Thisbe: Page 488-489; Paragraph 5” “The conclusion was inevitable. He never doubted that he knew all. Thisbe was dead. He had let his love, a tender maiden, come alone to a place full of danger, and not been there first to protect her.” “It is I who killed you,” he said. Romeo and Juliet: Act 5 Scene 1; Juliet has sent Romeo a message telling him that she has faked her death but before her message gets to him someone tells him that she is dead, so then Romeo goes to Juliet’s family tomb and he kills himself. “Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument, And her immortal part with angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault And presently took post to tell it you. O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, Since you did leave it for my office, sir.”. This shows how in both stories they had either misunderstood or miscommunicated, which is a personal problem causing them to commit