Areusa wants to murder Calisto so that Melibea can suffer and feel the sadness that she feels. She is being cruel but it is not like Calisto doesn’t deserve some sort of punishment. She is not being sincere when she says to spare his life because she doesn’t care how he dies “We’ll celebrate whatever way he dies.”.
I did like the fact that Calisto died in an accident because he never intended for anyone to get hurt he only wanted to receive the love of Melebia. Yes Calisto is dead either way but I believe the play would seem a lot darker because of all the murder. Melebia’s reaction is that she is immediately heartbroken. She already starts to regret all the things that her and Calisto didn’t get to enjoy together. She even paraphrases the old cliché “we don’t know what we got till its gone”.
It did not surprise me when she killed herself because I knew the play was a tragedy and by her reaction to Calisto’s death I predicted her to commit suicide. I thought her father would try to stop her but both him and his servant were foolish in leaving her by herself in her state. Once they had both left I knew that she would end her own life.
I believe that the author has the father do this to make the reader feel more sorrow. I did not feel bad during the deaths of the other characters in the book because most of them were going to get some sort of punishment for their actions. For the father of Melebia who had done nothing wrong to have to go through the sorrow he goes through is sad in a way. The author doesn’t show the mother’s reaction to better show you that she is so heartbroken that she cannot even speak. From the mothers few lines you can understand the sorrow she feels. He does not talk about her affair with Calisto because he is so overcome by her loss he cannot even think about that.
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