I really liked this story. I think Shakespeare also enjoyed this tale because it seems to have been the inspiration for his Romeo and Juliet. This story was very captivating. Sometimes i think it is hard to get into stories that are in prose form (especially when they are so long), but something about this story really captured my attention and i couldn't help but let my thoughts be taken away with this story.
This photo is of mulberries and if you read this myth then you know why they are red. Originally this fruit was the color of snow, a pure white. The blood of Pyramus changed them red when he killed himself because he thought the love of his life was eaten by a lion. When Thisbe came out from hiding from the lion she found her beloved Pyramus dead, killed by his own dagger. She, from grief of losing her lover, also decided to kill herself with his dagger, but not before she begged the Gods to keep this fruit the color of their blood to show and remind everyone of their tragic love.
"And may you mulberry, whose boughts now shade one wretched body and will soon shade two, forever bear these darkly colored fruits as sign of our sad end, that men remember the death we met together" (115).
After she pleaded these words she also used Pyramus dagger to take her life. Although it was a very tragic story it was still very captivating and worth taking a look at.
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