Question

Read the excerpts from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
"Pyramus and Thisbe"
They owed
their first encounters to their living close
beside each other—but with time, love grows.
Theirs did—indeed they wanted to be wed,
but marriage was forbidden by their parents;
yet there's one thing that parents can't prevent:
the flame of love that burned in both of them.
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.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
What statement best describes the relationship between these works?
Both works show a marr

Answer 1

Statements -

1. Both works show a marriage denied; only Shakespeare offers background. 2. Both works show young people in love; only Shakespeare suggests limitations.

3. Both works show young people in love; only Shakespeare describes the setting.

4. Both works show a marriage denied; only Shakespeare mentions families.

• Both the excerpts tell about the limitations from the protagonists' families against their being together.
• The protagonists from both plays wanted to marry each other but their familial feuds were the reason that they couldn't.
• In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare has described the setting in 'Verona' and the societal status of both households which was similar to each other.
• Hence, statement 1 seems the most appropriate for describing the relation between said works.

Answer 2

Answer:

trust it's D

Explanation:

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