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• In act 3 scene 2 and act 3 scene 5, the audience sees Juliet fully transition to a brave independent woman through her deception of the Capulets. This deception allows her to challenge typical gender stereotypes from the time
• Firstly, in act 3 scene 2 we can see that Juliet is conflicted by the news of Tybalt's death
• The use of heavily oxymoronic language may show her inner turmoil as she has tondecide between her family and her husband
• Shalespeare may have used interrogatives to represent Juliet's internal conflict between duty and loyalty, built up by her own deception.
• This is seen through her guilt for not remaining loyal to Romeo as her role as a married Elizabethan woman means she must remain loyal to her husband above anything.
• "Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! Wolvish ravening lamb!"
• "Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?... Back, foolish tears".