Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!
Most detestable death, by thee beguil’d,
By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!
O love! O life! not life, but love in death!
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scene 5. A distraught Paris looks at what he believes to be Juliet’s corpse on the bed and says that he will love her in death. He angrily reviles and personifies death, protesting that it cruelly tricked Juliet and deprived him of his one love. Unknownst to Paris, Juliet has taken a sleeping potion to avoid marrying him. This entire scene is filled with dramatic irony and also situational irony for the Capulets and Paris, who thought they would be celebrating a wedding and not a funeral.