Q. #2 pg.55

The story's closing lines conclude the darkness/death imagery Ovid has developed throughout the narrative by combining Pyramus and Thisbe's wishes with the themes. For example, Thisbe wants the tree to have "pullosque et luctibus aptos semper habe fetus" which is noticeable in the last lines by the phrase "nam color in pomo est, ubi permaturuit, ater". In this insistence and many others in the story the darkness represents joy because it means their wishes have come true and its the time during the day when they can escape without being seen and under protection. Their plan to meet each other consists of happening "sub noctem" and "lateantque sub umbra arboris". The darkness in the story also portrays feelings of danger and worried. For example, Thisbe "sic facit incertum pomi color" of the tree because it is darker than usually. This makes her worried because she thinks something bad has happened and she doesn't know if she is at the right tree. Death is represented in the last lines because Pyramus and Thisbe "una requiescit in urna" which was their dream of being together. Throughout the story and especially in the last line death represents the unity of Pyramus and Thisbe and how much they love each other. For example, when Pryamus is talking to the lion who is not there he says, "Nostrum divellite corpus, et scelerata fero consumite visera morsu". The key word he uses is our when he talks about his and her death because it reveals how much he loves her since he wants the lion to kill him too. Then towards the end of the play Thisbe says a powerful line that summarizes the meaning of death. She says, "dabit hic in vulnera vires." This shows she loves Pyramus so much that the love is driving her to kill herself so they can be together at last, unite.