Celestina Day 5

Question 2. Melibea may have felt it was love but Calisto was just looking for a woman to have sex with. Being a woman she's more emotional and might actually be looking for a close relationship. Calisto was the hunter and he's chasing her around trying to get what he wants and Melibea is the one who's been evading and playing hard to get at times. I feel she was more confused about what love is and recognizing mens desires since she is still so young. I feel her suicide was genuinely over grief and maybe guilt over what happened. Though she makes it seem as though her honor was taken away she wanted to have sex with Calisto in the first place.

Question 3. Calisto and Melibea's death was like their downfall in this whole plan that was being worked out by Celestina. There is a lot of falling in this book and I think it's when people get to their lowest point. Calisto pursued Melibea so much and in the end he wasn't satisfied with what became of it. He figures he will just try and try again until it becomes the way he wants it to. Calisto's true colors show after hiding his false love so long and he is no longer the noble person he tries to be. Celestina is down emotionally and mentally after Calisto's falland she mimics this in her suicide. Celestina was really the manifest of their "love" together so when she died the love ended up dying with her.