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Romeo And Juliet Comparative Essay

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There were both differences & similarities within the events of the tragic myth & story of “Pyramus & Thisbe” & Romeo & Juliet, by the authors, Edith Hamilton & William Shakespeare. Although “Pyramus & Thisbe”, a myth of two childhood friends turned lovers who end up taking their lives due to a large misunderstanding, has likeness to Romeo & Juliet, a story of two star-crossed lovers, brought together by ‘love at first sight’ & take their own lives because of miscommunication & misunderstandings, they are still two different & intriguing works of literature.

Both of the loving pairs fell in ‘love’, but the way that they went about it were both similar & different, so was the involvement of both of the couples’ parents. Pyramus & Thisbe …show more content…

In more ways than one, I think that Pyramus & Thisbe truly, mortally, loved each other while Romeo & Juliet were hasty teenagers that had a shared interest in each other. Not to mention, Juliet had pressure upon her to marry soon, so she was already in that mindset. Ms. Hamilton stated in her work, “Growing up… side by side they learned to love each other.” (Para. 2) And, “…they would talk, and as night came on and they must part, each would press on the wall kisses that could not go through to the lips on the other side.” (Para. 3) I think this shows just how in love & dedicated the two were to each other, & while, yes, Romeo & Juliet did express a similar dedication to one another, there form of dedication was dangerous, …show more content…

To start, Romeo & Juliet’s plan wasn’t made by them, it was made, partially, by Juliet but it was mainly Friar Laurence who formulated the plan. So, already there could’ve been misunderstandings. Then, to make it worse, Romeo was supposed to learn about the plan through a letter. There was no way he could’ve asked questions if he didn’t understand something. And with the letter being the only way to share the plan with Romeo, Juliet’s fate was hanging on the thread by the friar that was sent to deliver the letter to Romeo. William Shakespeare stated, “Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? / I could not send it, --here it is again, --/ Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,…” (5. 2. 14-15) So, to put it simply, Friar John failed, even if it wasn’t, necessarily, his fault. Now, we have a dangerous, hastily made plan that doesn’t have all parties on board. That right there is chaos in the makings. Now, just to make the plan work at all, Juliet had to partake in an extremely dangerous situation, she had to drink an elixir & not kill herself when she awoke in the tomb of her dead family members, all while being suicidal. On the other side of this coin turned saccharine-with-love, we have the plan of Pyramus & Thisbe. Their plan was formulated by them. Ms. Edith stated, “They decided that that very night they would try to slip away & steal out through the city into the open country… They agreed to meet at…

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His hastily devised backup plan was unsuccessful and if he had thought to make one beforehand, he wouldn’t have had this problem. There were many things he could have done to prevent the major flaws in his plan such as giving the message telling Romeo of the plan for Juliet to take the potion himself, having a way to get Juliet out of the tomb she would be placed in before she took the potion, or placing another Friar outside of Juliet’s tomb to further insure the information was provided to Romeo. However, he did none of these things which lead to the premature death of the young

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Juliet reconsiders going through with the plan. This is due to the fact that it was rushed and there was not much thought put into it. There are multiple ways it could go wrong and it does. If the plan went right, Juliet would have woken up in time and Romeo would still be alive. If Romeo was still alive, Juliet would be too as the only reason she killed herself was because she did not want to live a life without Romeo.

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