Group+10+-+Pyramus+and+Thisbe

= ﻿ PYRAMUS AND THISBE =


 * ** Summary **
 * Pyramus and Thisbe grow up and live in adjacent houses, but their parents only let them see each other through a hole in a wall.
 * Over time, the two fall in love.
 * Both of these people grow angry at their parents
 * They go and to a white mulberry bush, symbolizing purity, to have intercourse
 * Thisbe sees a lion with blood around it's mouth[[image:pyramus_and_thisbe.jpg align="right"]]
 * Thisbe is frightened, and she runs from the lion.
 * Pyramaus thinks she was eaten, so he kills himself.
 * Then Thisbe kills herself as well.
 * This is why the mulberry bushes are red.
 * Modern Connection
 * Pyramus and Thisbe have a connection that is known today, but is not very recent.
 * William Shakespeare made many connections to this myth in his novels.
 * Shakespeare's __Romeo and Juliet__ is very similar to this famous myth.
 * Also, In Shakespeare's __A Midsummers Night's Dream__ a crude representation of the myth is done in a play by characters of thebook
 * Also, throughout the novel, the theme of forbidden love is represented.
 * Also, throughout the novel, the theme of forbidden love is represented.