Love forbidden between two profoundly in love victims of society. Both play and poem have extremely deep content that is hard to explain. Both can resemble similarities and differences in their play and poem. Romeo and Juliet vs Pyramus and Thisbe, stories that have been known throughout the ages. The authors, Ovid who created pyramus and thisbe, which then Shakespeare got his motivation from, which he then created the story of Romeo and Juliet.The plot for Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe for Romeo and Juliet is a long story or play where as Pyramus and Thisbe is a short narrative poem. See Romeo and Juliet had love at first sight, where as Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors and built their relationship through time. Although both characters families did not like each other. …show more content…
But Pyramus and Thisbe would speak threw a crevasse in the wall. So, then both two lovers desired more of each other. Romeo and Juliet wanted to get married but the universe made it difficult for them to do so. Pyramus and Thisbe wanted to meet up because the poem does not go in to depth because it is shorter than a story. When Juliet sees that for it to work out she goes to extreme measures and takes a potion to make her sleep so they will think she is dead but Romeo will know she is not, after Romeo gets confused he takes a potion to kill himself. Juliet wakes up and sees he is dead so she takes the potion to ending up killing themselves. For Pyramus and Thisbe a lion is waiting at the tree that they were meeting at so Thisbe runs. Thinking that’s Thisbe is dead because Pyramus sees the lion eating something he kill himself. Thisbe later finds out he killed himself so she does the same. As you can see the plot has many similarities and differences. Where