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Lioness & Friar Lawrence
Both the Lioness and Friar Lawrence caused Romeo and Pyramus to think that Juliet and Thisbe were dead which caused both boys to kill themselves so they could finally be together in death without anyone or thing forbidding their love. The Friar says, "Hold, then. Go home, be merry. Give consent. To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone.Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.(shows her a vial) Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease.

No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest. The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade. To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall Like death when he shuts up the day of life. Each part, deprived of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes. To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.

Then, as the manner of our country is, In thy best robes uncovered on the bier. Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault. Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.

In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,

And hither shall he come, and he and I will watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. And this shall free thee from this present shame,

If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear, Abate thy valor in the acting it."
(4.1.90-120)
The narrator states,"She was still far enough away for Thisbe to escape, but as she fled she dropped her cloak. The lioness came upon it on her way back to her lair and she mouthed it and tore it before disappearing into the woods. That is what Pyramus saw when he appeared a few minutes later. 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. He had let his love, a tender maiden, come alone to a place full of danger, and not been there to protect her."
(pg.948)

Liya Tekle

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In the stories before the lead males, Pyramus and Romeo, committed suicide they gave a last kiss to show their passion for their lover. Both kissed something that made them presume their only love was dead. Pyramus had found the torn and tattered cloak that led him to believe his lover was dead, according to the text when, "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". After he had found it he thought he could not go on without his lover, so in a last hope for his love he kissed the cloak as shown in the text on page 948, "He lifted up from the trampled dust what was left of the cloak and kissing it again and again carried it to the mulberry tree". In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo had been led to believe that Juliet was dead when she was only in a deep sleep, shown by the quote, "For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred"(5.2.85-87)
This kiss symbolizes how hopeless they felt and how much they desired to be with their lovers. It is a visual representation of their internal feelings.

Emily Scronce

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Scenes/The Montague & Capulet and the children's families

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Scenes/The Montague & Capulet and the children's families

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Pyramus and Thisbe both met in Babylon and Romeo and Juliet both met in Verona. These settings both introduce the characters in the beginning of the stories. In the prologue of Romeo and Juliet it states, "Two households, both alike in dignity./ In fair Verona, where we lay our scene." (Prologue. 1-2). In Pyramus and Thisbe, Ovid states, "Pyramus and Thisbe, he the most beautiful youth and she the loveliest maiden of all the East, lived in Babylon, the city of Queen Semiramis, in houses so close together that one wall was common to both." (947). Both of these writers established a setting that portrayed these families as equals. It showed a more desperate and challenging situation to these main characters to be together. It raised tension and difficulties concerning what the families would think of them and their disloyalty. Shakespeare and Ovid made it to where we want these two main characters together; that we have two opposing forces but one person from each has equality with the other.

Paulina J.C.

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Romeo killed himself by drinking poison. Juliet then tried to kill herself using the poison that Romeo drank. She tried to get some of the poison by kissing him. In the end, she killed herself with Romeo's sword. Pyramus killed himself with his own sword. Thisbe then kissed Pyramus as a last goodbye. Thisbe killed herself using his sword. "Your own hand killed you... and your love for me. I too can be brave. I too can love. Only death would have had the power to separate us. It shall not have that power now," Thisbe stated (949).
" Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger ! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die ,"Juliet (5.5.8)
Both women killed, or tried, to kill themselves the same way their lovers did. Both women also killed themselves with their lovers sword. Both of the male leads killed themselves over their grief for their "dead" lovers.
Hannah Person

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The gods and the Prince.

The gods were the absolute powers in the world, and they pardoned those in the story. Ovid states, "The gods were pitiful at the end, and the lovers' parents too" (949). The Prince in "Romeo and Juliet" was also the absolute power in Verona, the Prince pardoned the characters. The prince states, "Some shall be pardoned/ and some punished:/ For never was a story more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (4.3.8-10).

Lauren Jewell