Ovid's Metamorphoses sees a case of connections between the books and his work as a whole. The tenth book is no different from this one, and the structure of the tenth book is based on the same idea of ​​connections throughout the text. Connections can create parallels in characters and their situations both within the book and in interaction elsewhere in the stories. We can also compare thematic links such as love, madness and betrayal in the story. But the greatest connection throughout the texts are the transformations themselves that have an effect on the structure of book ten as a whole. A key idea in the books that Ovid explores in great detail in book ten is the idea of ​​love, both tragic and tragic. his madness. Orpheus is the secondary narrator of most of book 10. At the beginning of the book we are introduced to the tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice, the result is that Orpheus loses his love in the underworld for the second time after a failed attempt to take her. Backwards. Consequently, most of the stories told by Orpheus concern tragic love, such as his and Eurydice's doomed love. The effect is that the stories of the tenth book have a structural connection in the theme of love. We see Apollo's lovers suffer a similar fate as do Myrrha and Adonis. All these stories are linked by love which can be described as tragic as it causes someone to transform or fall. However, love can also be presented in another light. The love explored by Ovid is also worrying or crazy love. Love is Ate or madness in the cycle of arrogance in Greek literature. Love causes many bad things to happen. This is explored in great detail with Myrrha and her love for her father. Love is madness and is presented as a disease that resorts to the breakdown of society's norms...... middle of paper ...... story connections form a key part of the structure of book ten. Overall book ten has many connections throughout the book and the structure of book ten relies on them to work. Many are based on themes that are internally complex and debatable, such as the nature of love and whether it is tragic or maddening. How focus can change our understanding and representation of a character's situation. How obsession affects the characters and our perception of the text as a whole. As well as the transformation caused both physically and emotionally in the transformation of the types of love. All of these factors influence the structure of the tenth book and how that affects our reading of the book as a whole. And consequently without them the structure of the tenth book would suffer. Works Cited Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans David Raeburn (2004) Penguin Classics, London. Book 10