Part A: Which of the following is a theme of "Pyramus and Thisbe"? A
Love is eternal
B
Love is all consuming
C
Love can give you courage
D
Love conquers all

Story:
Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid
57 Now Thisbe takes
58 ​great care, that none detect her as she makes
59 ​her way out from the house amid the dark;
60 ​her face is veiled, she finds the tomb; she sits
​61 beneath the tree they'd chosen for their tryst.
62 ​Love made her bold. But now a lioness
63 ​just done with killing oxen--blood dripped down
64 ​her jaws, her mouth was frothing-- comes to slake
​65 her thirst as a cool spring close to the tree.
66 ​By moonlight, Thisbe sees the savage beast;
67 ​with trembling feet; the girl is quick to seek
68 ​a shadowed cave; but even as she flees,
69 ​her shawl slips from her shoulders. Thirst appeased,
70 ​the lioness is heading for the woods
71 ​when she, by chance, spies the abandoned shawl.
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72 ​upon the ground and, with her bloodstained jaws,
​73 tears it to tatters.
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74​ Pyramus had left
75 ​a little later than his Thisbe had,
​76 and he could see what surely were the tracks
​77of a wild beast left clearly on deep dust.
78 ​His face grew ashen. And when he had found
78 ​the bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same night
79 ​will see two lovers lose their lives: she was
80 ​the one more worth of long life. It's I
​81 who bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl,
82 ​it's I who led you to your death; I said
​83 you were to reach this fearful place by night;
84 ​I let you be the first who would arrive
85 O all you lions with your lairs beneath
86 ​this cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feast
87 ​upon my wretched guts! But cowards talk
88 ​as I do-- longing for their death but not
89 ​prepared to act." At this he gathered up
​90 the bloody tatters of his Thisbe's shawl
91​ and set them underneath the shady tree
92 ​where he and she had planned to meet. He wept
​93 and cried out as he held that dear shawl fast:
94​"Now drink from my blood, too!" And then he drew
95 ​his dagger from his belt and thrust it hard
96 ​into his guts. And as he dies, he wrenched
97 ​the dagger from his gushing wound. He fell,
98 ​supine, along the ground. The blood leaped high;
99 ​it spouted like a broken leaden pipe
100 ​that, through a slender hole where it is worn
101​ sends out a long and hissing stream as jets
102 ​of water cleave the air. And that tree's fruits,
103 ​snow-white before, are bloodstained now, the roots
104 ​are also drenched with Pyramus' dark blood,
105 ​and from those roots the hanging berries draw
106 ​a darker, purple color.
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Now the girl
107 again seeks out the tree: though trembling still,
​108 she would not fail his tryst, with eyes and soul
109 ​she looks for Pyramus; she wants to tell
​110 her lover how she had escaped such perils.
111 ​She finds the place-- the tree's familiar shape;
112 ​but seeing all the berries' color changed,
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​113 she is not sure. And as she hesitates,
​114 she sights the writhing body on the ground--
115 ​the bloody limbs-- and, paler than boxwood,
116 ​retreats; she trembles-- even as the sea
117 ​when light wind stirs its surface. She is quick
118 ​to recognize her lover; with loud blows
119 ​she beats her arms-- though they do not deserve
120 ​such punishment. She tears her hair, enfolds
121 ​her love's dear form; she fills his wounds with tears
122 ​that mingle with his blood, and while she plants
​123 her kisses on his cold face, she laments:
124 ​"What struck you, Pyramus? Why have I lost
125 ​my love? It is your Thisbe-- I -- who call
126 ​your name! Respond! Lift your fallen head!"
127 ​He heard her name; and lifting his eyes
128 ​weighed down by death, he saw her face-- and then
129 ​he closed his eyes again.
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​ She recognized
130 ​her own shawl and his dagger's ivory sheath.
131 ​She cried: "dear boy, you died by your own hand:
​132 your love has killed you. But I, too, command
133 ​the force to face at least this task: I can
134 ​claim love, and it will give me strength enough
135 ​to strike myself. I'll follow you in death;
136 ​and men will say that I --unfortunate--
137 ​was both the cause and comrade of your fate.
​138 Nothing but death could sever you from me;
139 ​but now death has no power to prevent
140​ my joining you. I call upon his parents
141 ​and mine; I please for him and me-- do not
142 ​deny to us-- united by true love,
143 ​who share this fatal moment-- one same tomb.
144 ​And may you, mulberry, who boughs now shade
145 ​one wretched body and will soon shade two,
146 ​forever bear these darkly colored fruits
147 ​as signs of our sad end, that men remember
148 ​the death we met together." With these words,
149 ​she placed the dagger's point beneath her breast,
150 ​then leaned against the blade still warm with her
151 ​dear lover's blood. The gods and parents heard
152 ​her prayer, and they were stirred. Her wish was granted.