Juliet is deceiving. While at Friar Lawrence's cell to disscuss wedding plans with Paris, Juliet in-directly tells him that she is actually married to Romeo; she has no desire to be wed to Paris.
Paris: Happily met,my lafy and my wife!
Juliet: That may be, sir, when I may be a wife... (IV.i.18-19)
Paris: Come you to make confession to this father?
Juliet: To answer that, I should confess to you.
Paris: Do not deny to him that you love me.
Juliet: I confess to you that I love him... (IV.i.23-26)
Paris: Thy face is mine,and thou hast sland'red it.
Juliet: It may be so, for it is not mine own... (IV.i.35-36)
Here is when Juliet gives Paris three distinct clues that she is already married. However, she words herself in such a way that it is hard for Paris to pick up on this. The whole time she is talking to him she is saying how she is already married to Romeo, and that he has no buissness in going forth with the wedding plans. Paris being self-absorbed and anxious to make Juliet his wife, is completley oblivious to what she is really saying, thinking that she is talking about him the whole time. By chosing how she words what she wants to say very carefully, Juliet is able to throw Paris off track of what she really thinks of him; she decieves him into thinking that she is actually in love with him when she is not really at all, her heart belongs to Romeo.
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