When He Came Across A Dying Pyramus And Thisbe

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Pyramus and Thisbe were destined to be kept apart by their parents actions, by the wall that was put up between their homes, and the emotional barriers that were placed on them by others and by physical barriers such as the wall. However, Pyramus and Thisbe were not destined to die. They made that choice by themselves. Pyramus chose to kill himself because he thought that Thisbe was dead when he saw her bloody scarf. “And he imbrued the steel, girt at his side, deep in his bowels; and plucked it from the wound, a-faint with death.” When Thisbe came across a dying Pyramus, she chose to kill herself rather than spend her life without him. “No more she said; and having fixed the point below her breast, she fell on the keen sword, still warm with