Celestina Act 12-17

MELIBEA: "No animal is so tame that it doesn't turn fierce when its young are threatened. What would they have done if they'd known I had gone out?"
I thought that this quote by Melibea was very interesting. It is a little bit of the teenage angst and need to rebel against her family. In this short passage, she has to pretend that she is Lucrecia in order to hide from her parents and sleeping with Calisto. I thought that this was a very interesting and "teen-like" quote where she is rebelling against her parents and wonders what they would do if they knew what she was really up to. It is a common case of a teen rebelling against their parents and wondering what the consequences would be if they actually found out what they were doing behind their backs. This quote portrays Melibea in a very interesting and juvenile light where she is tricking her parents to sleep with Calisto. It tells a lot of about her naive character and what she would do in order to have sex with her "true love."

1. In Calisto's soliloquy in Act XIV reflects his happiness of having sex with Melibea. Although he may be ashamed of how happy he is that he had sex with Melibea, he does not scold himself for it. His desire if completely in lust and not in love, but I believe that he understands that. He is disillusioned by the sex that he wants from Melibea.