Interpretive essay

Pyramus and Thisbe

“Love cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way.”(105) that is what it says in the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe and I believe it is true.

I believe this myth is important because I think everyone should be able to love who they choose I think it should never be forbidden because they will find a way to be together in the end whether you approve or disapprove.

Pyramus was known as the most beautiful youth in the entire east. He lived in Babylon in a house pretty much connected to the house of his true love. The only thing that separated them was a tiny wall, they were glad they could at least talk back and forth through the wall but they hated it because it wouldn’t allow them to touch.

Thisbe was the name of Pyramus’s love she was known as the loveliest maiden in the east. She planned to marry Pyramus but their parents forbade it. So they made a plan to sneak away together so the could be free. They decided that when the sun sank they would meet at the Tomb of Ninus under a tall mulberry tree filled with white snowberries.

So finally the sun went down and Thisbe was under the mulberry tree but there was no sign of Pyramus, she waited there patiently until she saw a lioness that had just made a kill walking to the stream to get a drink. Thisbe ran and hid from the lioness but she dropped her cloak on the ground. The lioness found the cloak and ripped it up leaving bloodstains and dirt all over it. A while later Pyramus came and saw her cloak ripped to shreds and automatically assumed that the lioness had killed Thisbe, so he blamed him self and took his own life with his sword and when Thisbe returned she saw him lying there dead and realized what had happened so she too took the sword and killed her self so they could be together.

This is why no love should be forbidden because they will always find away to be together even if its in death, if the parents wouldn’t have forbade them to get married that wouldn’t have happened. All they wanted was to be together.