The story of pyramus and thisbe: A scheme of “The Story of Pyramus and
Thisbe”,in Ovid’s masterpiece -more likely in the end- can compare and
reminds of “Romeo and Juliet”, because both were tragedies and died due
to horrible timing, so I did a little digging and read more about it from other
sources, and I think they said that it was an inspiration for Shakespeare
and that many people liked this original tragedy more. It captured my
attention since the very beginning, how they fell in love, and used to
whisper through a crack in the wall that separates their houses because
their love was forbidden by the families. It was heartwarming how they
found that way to keep the love growing as fire grows in woods: “There was
a chink in the wall between the houses … love is a finder …”
(Ovid,Met.IV.64-67). I felt all the sorrow in this story and that was what
made it special to me. The girl was so afraid when she came back from her
hiding and she was looking for her lover to tell him about the dangers she
encountered in her escape, as she is used to talking to him and sharing
everything to him, but then she finds him dead, and she starts crying and
as she longed for the kiss, she kisses his cold lips and wept. She did the
same as he did, and in the name of love she let the sword drink of her
blood too. I liked the symbolism of the mulberry fruit, which means true love
that was not separated even in death. “Her prayers touched the gods,…
still reddens as its ripeness…rest in a common urn.”(Ovid,Met. IV.156-159).
This reminded me of the story of (Ashtarut –in Arabic- and Adonis) that I
read a long time ago, at the end of that story the white roses turned into red
because of the blood of Adonis and the tears of Aphrodite. (Ovid,Met.
IV.55-162).