One new
    characteristic we seegain in Act 3, Scene 2, in which Nurse informs her of 's death, is the
    ability to doubt and distrust. 
Juliet's first response is to feel that she
    has been deceived by. We see this in her speech beginning at line 76, in which she calls Romeo a
    series of contrasting images, such as "beautiful tyrant" and "fiend
    angelical." All of these oxymorons serve to question Romeo's character, arguing that he is
    not as wonderful as she first saw him to be. She even ends this speech with, "O, that
    deceit should dwell /...
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