"Romeo and Juliet" & "Pyramus and Thisbe" by Nick New https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o en-us 2018-12-04 17:26:55 UTC 2018-12-06 13:59:44 UTC hello@padlet.com Small misunderstandings can lead to Great tragedy marcus_morris151 https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311026279
In "Romeo and Juliet" Romeo was under the thought of that Juliet was dead which she wasn't. Shakspheare states, " Here’s to my love! (drinks the poison)O true apothecary,
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die".
He resorts to killing himself for Juliet so he can be with her. Juliet later finds Romeo dead next to her and then stabs herself , so that she can be with her love Romeo. If Romeo would've have realized that Juliet wasn't dead or would've know this they would most likely still be alive and none of this would've happened.


In "Pyramus and Thisbe" Thisbe had ran away from the lioness that was wandering around the country side after it had made a kill. Thisbe dropped her cloak while trying to get away from the lioness and the lion ripped it to shreds. Pyramus arrived to see that his lovers cloak was ripped and the lionesses mouth was bloody, so he is under the impression of that his lover has been mauled by a lioness. He blames himself for not being there to protect his lover from her inevitable death. Ovid writes, " “It is I who killed you,” he said. 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. “Now,” he said, “you shall drink my blood too.” (5th paragraph) He drew his sword and drove it into his side. Thisbe returns to the scene and see what has happened, so she decides that if death is the only thing that separates them now then she should kill herself so that it couldn't. So she killed herself to be with her lover, Pyramus, forever.
In both "Romeo and Juliet", and " Pyramus and Thisbe" both experienced small understandings that eventually led to their inevitable deaths. If these mishaps didn't take place, then all of these deaths could've easily been avoided.

]]> 2018-12-04 17:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311026279 Parent kennedi_scullark https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311026679        In "Pyramus and Thisbe",  the two lovers lived beside each other and as it says in the story, "Growing up thus side by side they learned to love each other". Their parents knew that Pyramus and Thisbe had a connection, but they did not allow them to pursue a future. In fact, Ovid writes, "They longed to marry, but their parents forbade.
      In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet met at a party. They didn't know that each other was a family enemy. The two families have had a feud for as long as anyone could remember. As it says in the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet, "Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean". Anything to do with the other family they didn't like. This meant that Romeo and Juliet could definitely not tell their parents about their love. Juliet's parents wanted her to marry a very successful man named Paris, but little did they know that she was already married to her one true love, Romeo.
 After the death of the two couples, the parents had a change in heart. They realized that they had drove their children to their fateful end. In 

"Pyramus and Thisbe" the Parents were devastated after knowing that their children's lives have come to an end. The author of this story, Ovid, shows this by saying in the last paragraph, "The gods were pitiful at the end, and the lovers’ parents too". In Romeo and Juliet  When the parents realized that their children have died, they start to ask how it happens. Friar Lawrences tells them how their children were in love and didn't care about the long-lasting feud. This brings the parents to their senses and they decide to set their problems aside for the sake of their kids. As the Montagues say in Scene 5 Act 1," But I can give you more. I’ll raise her statue in pure gold. As long as this city is called Verona, there will be no figure praised more than that of true and faithful Juliet." they make peace with each other by saying that they will build a state of the opposite family's child. 

Both set of parents realize what their actions have done to their children future.
]]> 2018-12-04 17:31:33 UTC https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311026679 Lack of communication NickNew https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311027037 In Romeo and Juliet there is a loss of communication of the plan to get Juliet out of her marriage with Paris. This is seen as Friar John says, "I could not send it—here it is again—
(gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter)
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection." (Shakespeare 5.2 L15-17) Similarly, in "Pyramus and Thisbe" there is little communication what so ever, because they are separated by a wall; they could only communicate via a chink in the wall. "In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink. No one before had noticed it, but there is nothing a lover does not notice. Our two young people discovered it and through it they were able to whisper sweetly back and forth." (Ovid Pgh.3) In both stories, a lack in communication directly relates to the death in 2 pairs of lovers, Romeo and Juliet & Pyramus and Thisbe.
]]> 2018-12-04 17:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311027037 The Risk Taken barnes_jac24 https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311477109        In Romeo and Juliet, risk play a valuable role in the development of events is the play. Without risk, the turn that the play takes wouldn't have such of an effect on the audience as it did. For example, when Lord Capulet throws a party towards the beginning of the play, Romeo takes a huge risk by wondering around attempting to find Juliet's balcony so that he can talk to her. This could have caused numerous negative results such as Romeo being killed by a Capulet.  

 "Pyramus and Thisbe" contains many risk. Even though the risk in this story may not seem as big, they still lead to misunderstandings. For example, both Pyramus and Thisbe took a risk to talk to each other through the chink in there wall, knowing that if they were caught there would be many consequences. Meeting in the middle of the night to run off with the high risk of getting caught. The story then changes from love to somewhat disobedience and desire to have to take risk. 

 Both Romeo and Juliet and Pyramus and Thisbe are alike in terms of risk taking in almost every way. Throughout there storylines, both contain decisions that must be made by the characters continuously as they develop. In both writings there parents did not want for them together and they took a risk to try to be together despite that which eventually caused there death. For example, Friar Lawrence and Juliet went on a risk to fake her death knowing that if she was found by Romeo before being informed by Friar Lawrence. The reaction would be devastating. Same for Pyramus and Thisbe except they took the risk of meeting during the night which led to a misunderstanding that led to death. All in all risk played a huge role in the outcomes of both the two writings and the foreshadowing of there events.]]> 2018-12-05 17:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/NickNew/jxpurhl7mm6o/wish/311477109