Romeo and Juliet shows the audience time and time again throughout the play that love is stronger than hate and that impulsive decisions can be very harmful. Shakespeare encourages the audience to consider this when he writes that “for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Shakespeare 5.3.309). In ending the play on such a tragic note, Shakespeare drives home the point that love is stronger than hate and that emotionally driven, impulsive decisions are rarely good ones. The messages that “Pyramus and Thisbe” sends are similar to those of Romeo and Juliet, but also add in a separate lesson when Thisbe begs the mulberry tree: “Keep in remembrance always the sign of our death, the dark and mournful color”(Ovid 123). Like Romeo and Juliet, “Pyramus and Thisbe” also cautions against emotional decisions, but combines this with the purpose of a myth, which is to explain something in nature; in this case, the color of mulberries. While many things appear to be the same in both stories, the lessons that each story teaches are one of the most obvious deviations from the other
Romeo and Juliet shows the audience time and time again throughout the play that love is stronger than hate and that impulsive decisions can be very harmful. Shakespeare encourages the audience to consider this when he writes that “for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Shakespeare 5.3.309). In ending the play on such a tragic note, Shakespeare drives home the point that love is stronger than hate and that emotionally driven, impulsive decisions are rarely good ones. The messages that “Pyramus and Thisbe” sends are similar to those of Romeo and Juliet, but also add in a separate lesson when Thisbe begs the mulberry tree: “Keep in remembrance always the sign of our death, the dark and mournful color”(Ovid 123). Like Romeo and Juliet, “Pyramus and Thisbe” also cautions against emotional decisions, but combines this with the purpose of a myth, which is to explain something in nature; in this case, the color of mulberries. While many things appear to be the same in both stories, the lessons that each story teaches are one of the most obvious deviations from the other