Juliet Burke.  I always had issues trusting Juliet.  Even though she eventually turned out ok, you still have to wonder if she’s really going to stick with them.  I mean, sure, she wants to get off the island just like everyone, but that doesn’t mean that she didn’t lie to the survivors at first, and continue helping Ben.  I think Juliet’s attraction to Jack is because she truly believe Jack can save her, and everyone else on the island, and she likes that persistence in him.  After seeing her past, it’s hard not to feel sorry for her.  You see her sister almost die from cancer, but then everything gets turned around.  The cancer is cured, and is pregnant.  Ben claimed the cancer returned, and he could cure it if Juliet would remain on the island, but Ben’s manipulation will be covered in greater detail in his analysis.

Juliet is a very caring person, and she demonstrates this many times.  She never stopped bringing Jack food, and was quick to trust him even after he almost killed her.  That tells you a lot about a person.  It’s similar to your walk in your religious faith, if you think about it.  Being one way in your place of worship is one thing, but acting like it outside the church is something totally different.  Even after Jack threatened her, she continued to do what was right, and that tells you a lot about her personality.  You see her get so upset when her ex-husband gets hit by a bus, and dies.  Of course we all would, but it just demonstrates her caring attitude.  I think Jack made a bit of a misjudgement trusting her so fast.  In fact, that’s a little out of Jack’s personality, usually it’s the opposite.

She feared not being accepted by the survivors of the plane crash, and her assumption that they wouldn’t trust her was right.  But, I can’t blame them.  You suddenly have a person that is part of a group that has kidnapped, and attempted to kill your people, wouldn’t you have issues too?  You have to wonder if it was Jacob that cured her sister’s cancer?  I mean, obviously we know that Jacob is supernatural; some type of god apparently, so is this the case?

In studying Juliet’s character, we can learn that lying is not a good thing.  Ben manipulated and used her, attempting to convince her that she could leave if he obeyed what she did, causing her to lie many times, even to the survivors.  But, being the person that she is, she saw the wrong in what she was doing and stopped before it was to late.  I think that’s a very valuable lesson to learn.