Question

Read the excerpts from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe and Shakespeare’s Romeo and JuWhich statement best describes the difference between these excerpts?liet.

Answer 1

Answer:

Only Shakespeare shows a character warning against a doomed relationship

Explanation:

The excerpts from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,The statement which best describes the difference between these excerpts is that only Shakespeare shows a character warning against a doomed relationship.

The summary of the excerpts from Pyramus and Thisbe can be seen below.

They had no confidant—and so used signs:

each lover read the other's mind with these:

when covered, fire acquires still more force.

The excerpts from Romeo and Juliet goes thus:

Romeo said: Juliet hath forsworn to love, and in that pledge Do I live dead that live to tell it now.

Benvolio response: Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.

Romeo further ask: O, teach me how I should forget to think.

Benvolio reply: By giving liberty unto thine eyes;