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Read the passage.

Excerpt from Act V, Scene 1, in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's version of Ovid's Pyramus and Thisbe myth

Pyramus
Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny
beams;
I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;
For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,
I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.
But stay, O spite!
But mark, poor knight,
What dreadful dole is here!
Eyes, do you see?
How can it be?
O dainty duck! O dear!
Thy mantle good,
What, stain’d with blood!
Approach, ye Furies fell!
O Fates, come, come,
Cut thread and thrum;
Qual, crush, conclude, and quell!


How does Shakespeare’s use of Ovid's treatment of the moon in "Pyramus and Thisbe" affect this scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream?
It creates a more romantic mood.
It sets the stage for a tragic ending.
It makes the setting more mysterious.
It changes the characters’ viewpoints.