"Poor Sibyl!...She had often mimicked death on the stage. then Death himself had touched her, and taken her with him,"
On the page of one hundred any one who wishes it can see the quote themselves and evaluate its meaning there, but for now I'll tell you how I interpret it. Irony is the contrast between what is expected or what appears to be and what actually is.The irony in this statement actually jumped out at me while I was reading and I had to write it down. Sibyl is used to playing death on her day to day life, whether it be acting out the very last acts of Romeo and Juliet where she is Juliet and is kissing Romeo then dropping to the ground. But now death has come and taken her to the place of no return. It is even more ironic that she also died as Juliet died. Heartbroken and no one left to love her, she decided to leave the world with a suicide so pure that it could make a mass murder cry. She drinks the prussic acid and sacrifices her self to the world, kind of in the same way Juliet does. The coldest irony that has been set upon the world. Well at least she went out as someone she loved
That is a very good point. Even though Sybil had previously felt complete bliss, knowing that Dorian loved her and would marry her, she ends up committing suicide after a tragic turn of events. In the same way, Juliet was experiencing joy after marrying Romeo and pledging her love to him, yet she ends up killing herself after Romeo is dead. The only difference is, Sybil killed herself because Dorian's love for her was dead. Neither ended in a happy ending.
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I agree with Sonya, Sybil, though, made a fool of her self for love, and she supposedly did it because she did not need to act for she was experiencing love. But, Dorian just notices he loved her for the things she did, not because of her
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