Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Juliet the clever

"I will confess to you that I love him" (IV. i. 25).

Juliet is a very clever character. She says something that someone wants to hear, but means another. For example, when Juliet tells Paris the she loves him, the him she is talking about is not Paris. The him is actually Romeo, but Paris does not realize this.
Juliet’s artifice to fool her parents into thinking she would marry Paris worked. She knows full well that this will not happen, but by agreeing with her parents gets them off her back.
Lets face it. Everyone is a little clever, whether it is when you tell your mom you are sick and you can not go to school when you are not or when you tell your parents that you are going to a friends house when you are actually going to a party. Everyone uses little tricks to get away with things. Juliet does the same thing and she uses irony in doing so.

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