Question

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".

Now the girl

again seeks out the tree: though trembling still,
she would not fail his tryst; with eyes and soul
she looks for Pyramus; she wants to tell
her lover how she had escaped such perils.
She finds the place—the tree's familiar shape;
but seeing all the berries' color changed,
she is not sure.

Ovid creates a tense situation, as Thisbe does not realize that
.

Answer 1

Ovid creates a tense situation, as Thisbe does not realize that the mulberries have been stained with blood—evidence that Pyramus has been wounded (and, by the end of the scene, killed).