Please answer at least THREE questions.
Question 1: Melibea and Calisto must meet in the dead of night, in the darkness. What does this reveal about the nature of their desire for one another, especially when you consider their references to images of light (i.e. stars, the moon, bright beams radiating form Melibea, etc).
Question 2: Melibea calls what she and Calisto have“love” – do you think either of them really loved each other, or does Melibea’s suicide have more to do with her shame than anything else? Do any of the characters exhibit actual love? If not, why is love referred to so often?
Question 3: What is symbolic about Calisto’s death?Melibea’s? Consider where and how the two lovers died. How do these deaths represent Celestina, what she stood for, and the lovers’ roles in her ‘game’?
Question 4: Did Pleberio really love his daughter? Consider the emphasis and direction of his ending speech: what is he really mourning over? Do any of the characters truly mourn over the deaths of their ‘companions,’ or is their grief more self-centered?
Question 5: Who do you see as the victim(s) in this story? Are there any real victims? Is everyone to blame? Are some characters more to blame than others?
Question 6: Melibea is fighting a double standard throughout the story. What does she represent for both the matriarchal and patriarchal worlds? What does all of this have to say about society’s hypocritical expectations?
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1. Melibea and Calisto meet in the dead of the night because their love really isn't as it seems because most people who love people show their love kissing in public and holding hands and etc. They are different because they meet when nobody else is around.
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6. The two worlds matriarchal and patriarchal play a major role because it symbolizes what she can and can't do. The society hypercritical expectations can relate to how black and whites were separated back in racism time when segregation was around. People expect certain people to do certain things.