William shakespeare based his characters romeo and juliet on the roman text "pyramus and thisbe". after reading the original text, explain the connection between the two texts. question 9 options: shakespeare used the ill-fated love of pyramus and thisbe to inspire his romeo and juliet. in both texts, the lovers are forbidden to be together, and when they finally plan to be together, they end up taking their own lives. this tragedy was no original to shakespeare but is derived from ancient texts. romeo and juliet is about a young couple who fall in love and get married over the course of a couple days. tragically, the take their own lives at the end because their families will not allow them to be together. romeo had seen juliet from across the cafeteria and knew she was the prettiest girl he had ever seen. it took some guts to finally approach her at the homecoming dance, but once he did, he knew he was in love. unfortunately, his dad had warned him that juliet was off limits because her father was a political rival.

answer: b

explanation:

it tells that they are they are trained over time since they are first born

source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen