Celestina 4

I believe that this scene was very unexpected. I don’t believe that Celestina is a victim but I don’t believe she deserved to get murdered. At some point all of the people she tricked the karma was going to come back around. They we’re not justified in killing her but she was wrong in promising them something and not holding up her end of the bargain. I believe that Sempronio and Parmeno overreacted and made a bad decision but as they said earlier in the text “there are no friends when money is involved”. I do not sympathize with either party because they picked an evil way to get money and the consequence turned out to be bad.

I believe that Calisto feel bad about his servants but he is overcome with so much happiness that he has finally made a great breakthrough with Melibea. He grieves their deaths but it is not true sadness he is too happy because of his situation with Melibea. Calisto feels bad rather than grieves their deaths.

The chain links all the characters together, and represents their unity as a community. Every action that one character makes effects all of the other characters in the play. The gold chain is what made them all fall apart so the chain is a huge symbol that is used throughout the book.

In medieval times women were expected to be chase at the time of marriage. She was so hesitant because she knew this and she did not want her parents to ever know what she was doing with Calisto. It was not an act of rebellion to her father it was more of her desires which were fueled by Celestina. She is presumed to be innocent and chaste until marriage but now that she is not and her parents are planning to marry her off there is a problem.

I believe that this theme is very major in all the stories that we have read and especially in this one. Celesitna’s whole trade is deceiving people, she used to put makeup on people, trick people into sleeping with each other, and ticking husbands into thinking their wives are virgins. The whole book is based into tricking people into getting a desired result. People change their appearance to get what they want or to create a certain feeling. The latter part of the quote to me kind of seems like their finished with all the deception and wants to cleanse themselves of it.