A Literary Analysis of Love in Pyramus and Thisbe and the Runaways Essay

The magic of Love and Irony by Naum Rabinovich I read the Greek myth "Pyramus and Thisbe" and the Native Americantale "The Runaways". These two stories share the same theme nothing couldstop the power of true love. I will describe the connection between thesetwo stories by using the literary elements of theme and irony. Both storiesare about two young and beautiful lovers that are forbidden to be togetherby some highly regarded force. In the end, they find a way to get aroundthis force to be together. In Pyramus and Thisbe, the force preventing these lovers from beingtogether is literally a wall. Even though the wall is there, their lovepermitted them to find a crack in the wall, the narrator writes, "In thewall that parted the two houses there was a crack, caused by some fault inthe structure. No one had remarked it before, but the lovers discovered it.What will not love discover! It afforded a passage to the voice and tendermessages used to pass backward and forward through the gap. As they stood,Pyramus on this side, Thisbe on that, their breaths would mingle." They maynow speak to each other. They would speak to each other every night andtheir conversations would go like this "Cruel wall," they said, "why doyou keep two lovers apart? But we will not be ungrateful. We owe you, weconfess, the privilege of transmitting loving words to willing ears." Theysoon decided to plot, and find a way to run away together, the narratorwrites, "Next morning, when Aurora had put out the stars, and the sun hadmelted the frost from the grass, they met at the accustomed spot. Then,after lamenting their hard fate, they agreed that next night, when all wasstill, they would slip away from watchful eyes, leave their dwellings andwalk out into the fields and to insure a meeting, repair to a well-knownedifice, standing without the city's bounds, called the...