Read the excerpts from Ovid's "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

"Pyramus and Thisbe":
"Now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it's I who bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl, it's I who led you to your death; I said you were to reach this fearful place by night; I let you be the first who would arrive. O all you lions with your lairs beneath this cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feast upon my wretched guts! But cowards talk as I do-longing for their death but not prepared to act." At that he gathered up the bloody tatters of his Thisbe's shawl and set them underneath the shady tree.

Which statement best describes the similarity between these excerpts?

A. Both men place blame upon the women they love.
B. Both men express hope that the women will recover.
C. Both men give dying tributes to the women they love.
D. Both men criticize society for denying them their loves.