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Romeo And Juliet Comparative Essay

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These ‘star-crossed lovers’ really fell for each other. These classic tragedies are well known for their own twist of love, featuring obstacles. Romeo and Juliet as well as Pyramus and Thisbe are both great works of literature that feature lovers that take their life for each other.
Both stories have enemies, but they are not alike. Pyramus and Thisbe must overcome a beast, a lioness. While the lovers are trying to meet each other, the beast appears, “The fierce beast had made a kill; her jaws bloody…” OVID 5 In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, they both have many human enemies, they fight to overcome. Early in the play the Capulets and the Montagues get into an altercation and one of the Capulet servants, Gregory, states “The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.” 1.1.18 (Shakespeare) Therefore they are not alike in this instance, but they are in other circumstances. …show more content…

In Pyramus and Thisbe, they took their life at separate times but for each other. During the beast scene, the myth states, “… Thisbe to escape, but as she fled, she dropped her coat… clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness… He never doubted he knew it all. Thisbe was dead… He drew his sword and plunged it into his side… She plunged it into her heart the sword this was still wet with his life’s blood.” OVID 5 However, Romeo and Juliet they had a little different situation that consisted of Juliet using a sleeping potion. They laid her in the Capulet tomb, then Romeo went to poison himself in the tomb. While Romeo was in the Capulet tomb this unfolded, “Here's to my love! (drinks the poison) true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die… (Juliet wakes) A cup, closed in my true love's hand… This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die. (Stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger and dies) 5.3.119-171 (Shakespeare) The lovers quick actions led to lots of self-inflicted

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