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Balthazar and the lioness represent the misconstrued and incomplete news that leads to rash decisions. Pyramus finds Thisbe's shredded veil in the lion's mouth and cries out in anguish, which is similar to Balthazar seeing Juliet in the funeral and informing Romeo of her death, to which he falls down and says, "Then she is well, and nothing can be ill,/ Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,/ And he immortal part with angels lives,/ I saw her laid low in her kindreds vault,"(5.1.17-20). Correspondingly, Ovid writes, "Before him lay the bloodstained shreds of the cloak and clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness. The conclusion was inevitable. He never doubted that he knew all. Thisbe was dead,"(948 Both sets of information given to the two male leads were invalid and a misunderstanding. (heather)

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Thisbe coming out of hiding is comparable to Juliet awakening out of her drug induced slumber, and both girls kiss their lover in an attempt to share their fate. When their effort fails, they choose to commit suicide with the same dagger that is covered in their lover's blood.

"She plunged into her heart the sword that was still wet with her lover's blood." - Pyramus and Thisbe (page 949) & "Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger,

This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die," (5. 3. 169-170) - Romeo and Juliet.

(heather)

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The plans that the two pairs of lovers made in order to be together ended in failure. Both Pyramus and Romeo believed their lover was dead, and it ultimately ended in them committing suicide. In the end an outside force effected their plans and made both Romeo and Pyramus believe that their fellow lover was dead. As a result of Romeo and Pyramus taking their lives, Juliet and Thisbe believe that there is no other option than death. In Pyramus and Thisbe, it states, " Before him lay the bloodstained shreds of the cloak and clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness. The conclusion was inevitable,"(948). In Romeo and Juliet, it says, " The noble Paris and true Romeo dead./ She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,/ And bear this work of heaven with patience./ But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,/And she, too desperate, would not go with me, But, as it seems, did violence on herself," (5.3.274-279). (Avery)

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In Pyramus and Thisbe a wall separated the two, but in Romeo and Juliet a grudge and Romeo's banishment separates them. In Romeo and Juliet, it says, "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," (Prologue line 3). In the passage Pyramus and Thisbe, Ovid says, "The hateful wall that separated them had become their means of reaching each other," (947). (Chandler)

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Two star-crossed lovers die of suicide because of a misunderstood situation. The prologue says, "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life," (Romeo and Juliet Prologue line 6). Ovid says, in "Pyramus and Thisbe", "The death of two young lovers was the cause," (947). In Romeo and Juliet, it states,"This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." (5.3.170) (Chandler)

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The parents of the two teens did not support the relationship and didn't want them to be together. In Romeo and Juliet, the hatred between their families kept them from seeing each other. Lord and Lady Capulet wanted Juliet to marry Paris, but she was in love with and married to Romeo. In Pyramus and Thisbe, their parents did not want them to be together and wouldn't let them see each other. In Pyramus and Thisbe it says, "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade. Love, however, cannot be forbidden," (947). In Romeo and Juliet, it states, "My only love sprung from my only hate!/

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/

Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/

That I must love a loathèd enemy," (1.5.138-141).

(Avery)