One example of this is when in Act IV, Melibea goes on about her dislike of Calisto and how she would have never even let Celestina into her house had she recognized her.

"Don't mention the name of that fool, that wall climber, that nighthawk, skinny as a stork, with a face like a badly daubed signboard! And if that isn't true may I drop dead this minute! He's the one who saw me yesterday and began raving at me and playing the gallant! Tell him, good old woman, that of he thought he'd won the field just because I listened to his idiocies, it was because I let him go for a maniac rather than punish him and make public of his folly! And tell him to give over trying to see me and it will be better for him. Other

wise, he may find that he never paid so dearly for an interview in his life! These madmen always think everyone else is mad. Take that answer to him and don't expect any other. And give thanks to God that you're getting off so easily! I'd been warned of your tricks. I let you in because I didn't recognize you at first."

In the Golden Age, among other periods, honor was a very important thing. "There were two elements in the soul of Spain, the Catholic faith and the concern for honour, and these combined in a single entity: the honour of being a Christian." (Defourneaux-64, 210) In the honor of being a Christian, violations such as unlawful love were sternly looked down upon. When Calisto made such a proposal to Melibea, she had no choice but to be angry.

When Calisto spoke of his wonton desire for Melibea, not only did it offend her, but it probably also hurt her honor. Merely asking for such pleasures was a grave sin at best. Melibea was known throughout the land as good and innocent and pure. To have a man simply think about her in "that way" infuriated her and caused her to go on as such. The Golden Age was no longer a time when "women and girls [were] so virtuous and irreproachable that even an involuntary fault, or the merest breath of scandal, merited death." (Defourneaux-59, 192) Melibea was angered not because Calisto was so bold as to suggest such lewd things to her, but that

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