Celestina Day Five

Act 20: The death of Calisto and Malibea just reminded me of Romeo and Juliet. The two characters were similar in a way as Calisto fell in love with Malibea just by looking at her and when one died the other could not live on. I thought it though much to dramatic and over the top the suicide of Malibea. At least Romeo and Juliet tried to be together and died due to silly mistakes on both their parts. Calisto's death was an accident while Malibea deliberately goes out of her way to kill herself. Both Malibea and Juliet can't live without their Romeo's and they take their lives to join their lovers in the after life.
It kind of surprised me that Malibea took her life like that, I didn't think that she would let her emotions control her like and cause her to think that way. There was no way the Malibea's father could have saved her and it was typical of the author to make it so that her father had no way of stopping her. After a few lines you could see that she was going to die or do something irrational and it was marked as a tragedy.

Act 21: The parts don't say much until the end of the story but parents are rarely paid mind or listened to in real life or in fiction. The speech at the end of the play was to show how the parents were blind to what was going on with their child, just as Romeo and Juliet's parents realized the wrongs and hurt they brought upon themselves and their children over a silly feud. The mother I believed was mentioned so little was because she was given lines in the beginning but she was one to let her daughter do what ever she wanted as she left her with Celestina who caught Malibea in her trap. Malibea's father is so much more torn about what happened to his daughter, it looks like Malibea was daddy's little girl.
To the say the least, the reason I believe that the Malibea' parents showed up now was because it could be the  meaning that at times parents are to late to recognize what is going on with their child and the don't realize it it was too late. I also believe the reason why they were more shocked at the committing suicide than catching her with another man is because it seems like it is  more common place for women to take on lovers and her parents probably didn't think she would take her life so dramatically.