Comparing Death In Shakespeare's 'Pyramus And Thisbe'

It has been a myth for a many years that the story The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare has been a playoff of an original story Pyramus and Thisbe retold by Edith Hamilton. The two novels share multiple similar qualities and their content falls along the same plot line of two lovers both dying in the end. In the same regards there are different qualities in each story this includes everything from the content to the dialogue of the characters that act out the content. The two stories that were originally written a thousand years apart can be interpreted as plagiarism or two great books depending on the how you look at it. So in a way these two tragedy tales of love and death share a great deal of information on the other hand the two stories can be argued as a direct contradictory of each other.

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One of which is the point at which the characters met and got married to one another. In the story of Romeo and Juliet they decided to get married literally one day after the young lovers were introduced. In Pyramus and Thisbe the couple had known they loved each other for almost their entire lives and spoke to one another for several years before they attempted to run off together. Which brings me to my next point of controversy. When Pyramus and Thisbe ran off together a lion was the heart of their problems in Romeo and Juliet it was the force of stupidity of multiple characters combine with the mistakes born from the stupidity, not a lion. “ but of a sudden she saw by the light of the moon a lioness”(Edith Hamilton 488). In the quote the Thisbe spots a lion and in Romeo and Juliet it is true love that decides the fate of Romeo. “Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”(Shakespeare 473). The comparison of these two quotes shows the difference of the problems of both