La Celestina / Characters

Characters appearing in La Celestina

Calixto

The play male protagonist, a foolish and whimsical guy who falls for Melibea.

All Love Is Unrequited: Is shutted up by Melibea after his Love Confession.
Bad Boss: He mistreats Pármeno and doesn't give a damn about his servants deaths, only thinking about his next date with Melibea.
Chivalrous Pervert: His lust for Melibea is bigger than his love for her.
Hopeless Suitor: which leads him to hire Celestina.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: When he hears about his servants death, he briefly mourns them before imagining his next meeting with Melibea.
Kick the Dog: Or Pármeno in that case.
Love Confession: To Melibea, at the very beginning of the story.
Love Makes You Crazy: spiced with Love Makes You Dumb.
Mad Love: The entire play is a Courtly Love parody.
Serenade Your Lover: Much to his servants´ chargrin.
Too Dumb to Live: He misses his step and falls from a wall.
Upper-Class Twit: He's some kind of lesser lord.

Melibea

The play female protagonist, a Proper Lady.

All Love Is Unrequited: Shuts up Calixto after his Love Confession.
All Women Are Prudes: Until Celestina arrives.
Daddy's Girl
Death by Despair
Defrosting Ice Queen: Thanks to Celestina.
Despair Event Horizon: Once Calixto dies.
Driven to Suicide: She throws herself off a tower when Calixto dies.
Ice Queen: at first
Sigh of Love: Once she falls for Calixto.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She comes off as cold and haughty, but is secretly appasionate.

Celestina

An old former prostitute and currently The Matchmaker.

Affably Evil: She comes off quite amiable. She´s also greedy and manipulative.
The Alcoholic: She offers a long rant about wine and its many properties.
Back-Alley Doctor: Besides being a Matchmaker and a sorceress, she also gets some money sewing himens.
Black Magic: She performs a dark ritual to make Melibea fall for Calixto.
Character Title
Cool Old Lady
The Corrupter: To everyone around her.
Deal with the Devil: implied to have done this in the past. Also she makes promises and threats to Pluto (Satan) during her incantation.
Death by Materialism: Her denial to share the golden chain Calixto gives her in exchange for her services leads Sempronio and Pármeno to kill her.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: She ends this way at Sempronio's and Parmenos's hands.
Dirty Old Woman: She enjoys watching sex as much as she enjoys (enjoyed) doing it.
Evil Mentor: To Elicia and Areúsa and, to a lesser extent, Pármeno
Evil Old Folks: She's not any saint.
Fatal Flaw: Her greediness, wich costs her her life.
Genre Savvy
Ironic Name: She performs black magic rituals and was a prostitute when young, also her name means "Heavenlike"
Manipulative Bitch: She plays everyone like a fiddle.
Secondary Character Title: She became so famous that the play went from "Tragicomedy of Calixto and Melibea" to simply "La Celestina".
The Matchmaker: The TropeCodifier in Spanish culture.
The Trickster: She tricks everyone around her to do her will.
Wicked Witch: She performs a ritual using bat blood, goat beard, snake oil, etc...

Sempronio

Calixto unloyal servant.

Parmeno

Calixto loyal servant.

Dark and Troubled Past: His mother was Celestina´s mentor, and they wored together before being arrested. Parmeno´s mother dies and Celestina takes (or at least tries) Parmeno under her wings.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: The ultimate reason he switches his loyalties.
Face–Heel Turn: He starts as a loyal servant and advisor to his master Calixto, but, thanks to Celestina´s anipulation, he switchs his alliances.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Until he´s fed up with his fooliness and turns to Celestina.
Those Two Guys: With Sempronio.

Elicia

Celestina´s pupil and Sempronio´s lover.

Clingy Jealous Girl: Has a tantrum when Sempronio comments about Melibea`s beauty.
The Ditz: She's not the brightest light on the candelabra.

Areúsa

Celestina´s pupil and Parmeno´s lover

It's Personal: Once her lover Parmeno dies, she plans to have Calixto killed so Melibea feels her pain.
Love Makes You Evil: After Parmeno´s death, she decides to have Calixto killed.
The Resenter: She resents women in higher positions than hers, like Melibea.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The second part of the play is about her arranging Calixto's murder

Lucrecia

Melibea´s maid

Maid and Maiden: The Maid to Melibea Maiden.
My Master, Right or Wrong: She's very loyal to Melibea, even if it implies covering up her meetings with Calixto.

Alisa

Melibea´s mother.

Pleberio

Melibea´s father.

Centurio

A sellsword and friend of Areusa's.

Characters / La Celestina