lunes, 10 de septiembre de 2007

Pyramus & Thisbe

I mostly read this myth because it was my favorite part in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I thought it was actually way better when it was funny, because now it just looked like a cheap imitation of "Romeo & Juliette," even though it's the other way around.

The plot is really simple, and really cliche too.

Basically: Boy and girl fall in love. Parents don't want them to marry. Boy and girl agree to elope. Misunderstanding happens. Boy thinks girl is dead. Boy kills himself. Girl sees that boy is dead. Girl kills herself. Families then become best friends. The end.

I really don't understand why authors like to kill off true lovers in stories. Even the worst writer in the world ought to be able to write "and they lived happily ever after" at the end of a story. What's the point of explaining a long and complicated romance, only to end it randomly and pointlessly?

Speaking of writers, who wrote all those Greek myths? And did they actually believe they were true, that a god had told them, did they think "that must have been what happened," or did their grandson ask them why mulberries were purple and they felt they had to answer? The same goes for the bible.

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