Thursday, November 17, 2011

CELESTINA day four

1.  I do not really know how to feel about the death of Celestina. I think Parmeno deffinitely betrayed her, given their past history. The servants deffinitely acted in greed, when they attacked Celestina. Their motive was to recieve their piece of the reward from Celestina, and I beleiev the greed got to them, plus the anger from their missing weapons.  I do not believe that Celestina deserved to die, because Parmeno and Sempronio knew what they were getting into when they entered into a ploy with her. They knew the way Celestina worked, especially Parmeno, whose mother was quite like old Celly. I kind of sympathize with Celestina because she was unjustly killed. She did not deserve the act, although in all honestly she probably knew where the chain was located. She did not directly harm either of the two servants in such a way that deserved such a retailiation.

2. Calisto  is very upset by his servant's death because of the way his reputation will be precieved. He is most upset in Act 13 because he is fearful of the whole town knowing all of his secrets, including the reasons he was consulting with Celestina. He was more focused on his on own downfalls than those of Sempronio and Parmeno, as well as his almost loss of communications with Melibea. I dont think he is even grieving for the loss of life, just for the loss of possible sex. This is very unfortunate for his two trusted servants, as well as his "miracle worker" Celestina.

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