Read the excerpts from Ovid's "Pyramus and
Thisbe and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
"Pyramus and This be"
"Now this same night
will see two lovers lose their lives: she was
the one more worthy of long life: it's I
who bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl,
it's I who led you to your death; I said
you were to reach this fearful place by night;
I let you be the first who would arrive.
O all you lions with your lairs beneath
this cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feast
upon my wretched guts! But cowards talk
as I do-longing for their death but not
prepared to act." At that he gathered up
the bloody tatters of his Thisbe's shawl
and set them underneath the shady tree
Which statement best describes the similarity between
these excerpts?
O Both men place blame upon the women they love.
O Both men express hope that the women will recover.
Both men give dying tributes to the women they love.
O Both men criticize society for denying them their
loves.