Pyramus And Thisbe Analysis

Two stories, both about forbidden love that lead to death. Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are two stories very similar to each other. Pyramus and Thisbe is about two young people, Pyramus and Thisbe, who are in love, but there is a wall physically and metaphorically separating the two. Romeo and Juliet are two teenagers who fall in love too quick and take it too serious. Both stories have a similar plot, and more than less the same endings. The couples are forbidden to be together and then end up dieing in the end. Therefore, the two stories are similar in the young forbidden love that ends in the death of both of them because they couldn’t live without the other, and the difference between the stories
There are more characters, more meeting between the two, and a lot more depth. For example their meetings are far less detailed, when Thisbe and Pyramus talk through hole the wall, it never truly tells you what they say. During the Balcony Scene it is very descriptive. Romeo says, “With love’s light wings did I o'erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares love attempt.Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” (6.3.66-69) There is no where close to this amount of detail about what is being said in Pyramus and Thisbe. Another difference is how it doesn’t describe why Pyramus and Thisbe are forbidden to love each other. In Romeo and Juliet we know it is because the rivalry between the Montagues and the Capulets. In Pyramus and Thisbe all it says about it is, “Their nearness made them acquainted, and love grew, in time, so that they would have married, but their parents forbade it.” (Lines 4-7) So for whatever reason, these neighbors forbid their children to be in love. In Romeo and Juliet though, it actually describes how the Montagues and Capulets are rivals and Romeo is son of Lord Montague, and Juliet is daughter of Lord