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
O grim-look’d night! O night with hue so black!
O night, which ever art when day is not!
O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,
I fear my Thisby’s promise is forgot!
And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,
That stand’st between her father’s ground and mine!
Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,
Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this scene from the play.

Pyramus calls the wall "sweet and lovely."

What effect does this choice of adjectives have on the meaning of the speech?

1.) It indicates that Pyramus is going to be disappointed by what happens to him and Thisbe because of the wall.

2.) It shows that Pyramus is so overwhelmed by his love for Thisbe that he has lost his sense of proportion.

3.) It hints that Pyramus is not expressing a sincere emotion, but instead is showing off.

4.) It implies that Pyramus is likely to see the good in everything, even in a mere wall.