Juliet is faithful in a number of ways. First, she is initially faithful to her parents. At the beginning of the play, her mother tries to convince her to marry Paris. Though she is not enamored by the prospect, she faithfully listens to her mother's advice, and promises to entertain the prospect before she meets Romeo. It is to Romeo who Juliet remains most faithful. After confessing her love for him in the balcony scene, her devotion to Romeo never waivers. Even after Romeo kills her cousin, Tybalt, Juliet remains faithful to her husband. This faithfulness causes her to fake her own death when her father attempts to force her to marry Paris. This faithfulness continues until the very end of the play, when Juliet commits suicide in order to join her husband in death.
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