Let's Talk About Sex!
Published on Feb 06, 2016
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Let's Talk About Sex!
Promiscuity, tragedy, and social critique in la celestina (1499)
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The novel's context
The novel's intention
How did spaniards feel about sex in 1499?
"no es pecado tener dos ni tres mujeres… el hombre que no las tiene no es hombre, sino mariconazo putazo" (Saint-Saëns 21)
People who die because of sex
- Celestina
- Pármeno
- Sempronio
- Calisto
- Melibea
people who survive sex
- Areúsa
- Elicia
- Lucrecia
- Pleberio
If rojas intends to link sex with tragedy...
why do some survive?
sex is not the object of critique
rather, it is the vehicle of critique
Celestina
economic desire - selfish gain
sempronio and parmeno
feel desire - subvert social hierarchy
Areusa, elicia, and lucrecia
feel desire - seek dissolution of social hierarchy
Rojas is seeking
"secular universalism" (Zepp 42)
The critique of the novel goes far beyond the "Jewish skepticism" often gleaned from Pleberio's final speech...
More than the loss of his own daughter, Pleberio laments social status and lost privilege.
The lament of Pleberio complements the desire Areúsa and the other women
ROJAS PROVIDES COMPLEX CRITIQUE OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS OF HIERARCHY AND HEGEMONY, RELIGIOUS AND OTHERWISE
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Nathan Douglas
Dept. of Hispanic Studies
ndouglas@iwu.edu
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