Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of Ovid's myth "Pyramus and Thisbe." Read the passage excerpt from Act V, Scene I, of A Midsummer Night's Dream. How does Shakespeare transform Ovid's myth of Pyramus and Thisbe?

Answer 1

Answer:

In the Act V, Scene I, of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare transform Ovid's myth of Pyramus and Thisbe by making a personification of the moon making it a character of the book.

Explanation:

First of all, personification is a stylistic device that allows the author to humanize an object by making it behave like a person. In this case, Shakespeare starts the fraction of the poem by describing as an object, however, while the poem advances it transforms it into a person by physical description and by the way the author speaks to her. Like a darling to the author.