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Pyramus and Thisbe (SUMMARY) Pyramus and Thisbe are madly in love and live in houses next to each other. Their parents, however, forbid their romance and build a wall between the houses. The lovers find a chink in the wall through which they speak and kiss one another. One night they decide to run away together, meeting at the Tomb of Ninus. Pyramus arrives first, and she sees a terrifying tiger with blood on its mouth. She runs away in fear, dropping her cloak. The tiger tears up the cloak and bloodies it. When Thisbe arrives, he sees the cloak, assumes his lover has died, and kills himself in sorrow. Pyramus returns, sees Thisbes body, and kills herself with the same knife. From then on, mulberries take on the dark red color of their†¦show more content†¦.......He kisses the veil and cries over it, then withdraws his sword and plunges it into his chest. When he falls back onto the ground, blood spurts so high that it stains the white berries on the tree. They turn deep red, and the roots of the tree a lter themselves so that they will produce only purple berries henceforth. .......After Thisbe leaves the cave to search for Pyramus, she hears him sighing near the tomb. When she arrives there, she recognizes the tomb and the tree. But the color of the berries bewilders her. And then she finds the body of Pyramus, quivering. â€Å"She shriekd, she tore her hair, she beat her breast. .......She takes Pyramus in her arms, bathes him in her tears, and kisses him, asking â€Å"Whence sprung thy cruel fate?† He opens his eyes for a moment, then closes them and dies. When Thisbe sees the bloody veil and the sword, she realizes what happened. She then says she hopes that the cruel parents of her and Pyramus will witness the results of a prayer she recites: Oh! see our ashes in one urn confind, / Whom love at first, and fate at last has joind. .......She then asks that the tree display the blood of not only Pyramus but also her own. And then in her bosom [she] plungd the sword, All warm and reeking from its slaughterd lord. The prayr, which dying Thisbe had preferrd, Both Gods, and parents, with compassion heard. The whiteness of the mulberryShow MoreRelatedPyramus And Thisbe Essay896 Words   |  4 PagesNot everyone has the same idea of beauty. Ovid’s â€Å"Pyramus and Thisbe† follows lovers who are forbidden to be with each other. The beauty that comes from the love that they share is shut down by the wall between them. Rod Sterling’s Twilight Zone episode â€Å"Eye of the Beholder† follows Ms. Tyler who gets surgery to try to make herself look â€Å"normal† but when the surgery does not work she is forced to go to a place for people who look like her. The viewer of the show sees her as a normal person butRead MoreThe Myth of Pyramus and Thisbe654 Words   |  3 Pages In the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, we find two lovers who stop at no means to express each other’s love. 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