Celestina Acts 18-21

1. Melibea and Calisto both meet usually in the dead of night and in the darkness. This says a lot about the nature of their desire for one another and the things that they truly want from each other. The nighttime is a time where things out of the ordinary happen. The fact that Melibea and Calisto meet during the night proposes that their love is not true. They only desire the idea of each other, and the dark of the night does not make them look at each other's faces to realize that. They love the thought of being in love, and they also get together to have sex. This is an obvious reason for them always meeting at night. Their love lies in lust and in their false belief in love.

2. I do not believe that Melibea and Calisto were actually ever in love. I think that in "Celestina," the word love it thrown around a lot, and used falsely. No character ever loved truly; they lust one another. I believe that all of the characters do not know what love really is and in order to just name how they feel about the person, they call it love. I think that Melibea does committ suicide because of the death of her "lover," but I think that she does realize that her love was not true. I think that she knows that she did not love him, but lusted him, for which she feels guilty and commits suicide. Love is fake in "Celestina." Every character falls in love with the image of their partner and does not end up finding true love within them.

6. Melibea is fighting between the matriarchal and the patriarchal society throughout the whole story. She was constantly trying to maintain her position as an innocent virgin woman, but could not fight off Calisto as her lover. This says that society is not very accepting of different standards and ways in which women have the right to live their lives. Melibea was not allowed to live in the world that she wanted because she was constantly fighting the double standard in society.