Do you believe that William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, was inspired by Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe"? Both of these stories are great tragic tales, that include a ton of plot twists. In the two stories Romeo and Juliet and "Pyramus and Thisbe" there are some major similarities and differences that can be discovered throughout both of the texts. Romeo and Juliet and "Pyramus and Thisbe" are both tragic tales about two lovers who are forbidden to marry that ends in dire consequences. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers forbidden to see each other that ends in death. In the story Romeo and Juliet it states, "From the forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star crossed lovers take their life." Shakespeare Prologue. The Shakespearean Prologue. 4-5). The sand is a sand. This is stating how a pair of lovers …show more content…
At the end of both stories, the pairs of lovers end their lives for each other. In the story Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare it states, "Whats here? A cup, closed in my true love hand? Poison, I see, hath been a timeless end, O Churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I kiss their lips. Haply some poison yet doth on them, to make me die with a resturative." Shakespeare 5.3. -. 161-166. See the This explains how Juliet sees her lover Romeo dead after he drank poison and how she wants to find some extra poison to end her life with him. In the myth "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Ovid it states, "Your own hand killed you", she said, "and your love for me. I too can be brave. I too can love this. Only death has the power to separate us. It shall not have that power now." She plunged into her heart the sword that was still wet with his lifes blood." i.e. a symphony of a symphony of a symphony of a symphony of a This is explaining how when Thisbe found her poor love Pyramus dead she decided to off herself with the own sword that was the cause of her lovers