Confederación e ironía: crónica de una muerte anunciada ( Celestina , autos I-XII)

Abstract

This essay attempts to understand why Celestina is assassinated and, especially, her own role in it. It begins in Act I when, owing to her current circumstances as an impoverished professional fallen on hard times, she senses the need to have as a backup a confederation with Calisto's servants, Sempronio and Pármeno. It is this confederation that proves to be her fatal flaw as it proves to be instrumental in her assassination. In the essay, all the steps leading from the formation of the arrangement to the final and fatal consequences (Acts I through XII) are studied and analyzed in the light of the many accompanying ironies. A final section speaks to the issue of how the confederation and its consequences provide a link to the final deaths of the two lover protagonists.