La Celestina is a work of classical literature of dramatic character, written in the fifteenth century by Fernando Rojas, there are diatribes regarding his authorship, but all bibliographic records appear as author.
Fernando de Rojas (La Puebla de Montalbán, Toledo, c.1470 Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, 1541) was a Spanish writer, although on some occasions he has been described as a dramatist by the dialogued nature of the only work that has been attributed, La Celestina
This work gave a great contribution of Spanish literature to Universal literature, portraying human passions, where human beings can understand through it the most intimate of our weaknesses, which today are the same as five hundred years ago.
A brief summary of this work:
The work begins when Calisto casually sees Melibea in the garden of his house, where he has entered to look for a hawk of his, asking for his love. This rejects it, but it's already late, it has fallen violently in love with Melibea. On the advice of his servant Sempronio, Callisto resorts to an old prostitute and now professional procuress named Celestina who, posing as a seller of various articles, can enter the houses and thus can act as matchmaker or arrange appointments of lovers; Celestina also runs a brothel with two pupils, Areúsa and Elicia. Calisto's other servant, Pármeno, whose mother was Celestina's teacher, tries to dissuade him, but ends up despised by his lord, who cares only to satisfy his desires, and joins Sempronio and Celestina to exploit Calisto's passion and share Gifts and rewards that it produces. Through his dialectical skills and the promise of getting the favor of one of his pupils, Celestina attracts the will of Parmeno; and through the magic of a conjuration to Pluto, together with his dialectical abilities, he also manages to make Melibea fall in love with Callisto. As prize Celestina receives a gold chain, which will be the object of discord, because greed leads her to refuse to share it with Calisto's servants; they end up murdering her, for which they are imprisoned and executed. The prostitutes Elicia and Areúsa, who have lost Celestina and her lovers, plot that the braggart Centurio murders Callisto, but this one will really only make a fuss. Meanwhile, Calisto and Melibea enjoy their love, but when hearing the agitation in the street and believing that their servants are in danger, Callisto jumps the wall of the house of her beloved, falls and kills herself. Desperate Melibea, commits suicide and the work ends with the cry of Pleberio, father of Melibea, who laments the death of his daughter.
It was taken to the movies in 1996 directed by Gerardo Vera and adapted by Rafael Azcona, starring Penelope Cruz as Melibea, Terele Pavez the evil Celestina and Juan Diego Botto the enamored Calisto.
In spite of the drama that is lived in the reading of this work, in each act of the twenty-six, they lead you to not stop reading all the chapters, this can lead us to have a critical vision about selfishness and greed, the latter it leads to the accumulation of material goods without thinking about the harm it can do to others, in order to achieve its purpose, by uniting with selfishness people can think only of themselves, in their interests and never, or very rarely, in those of those around him.
They are two anti-values that usually create a vicious and destructive circle, which in some cases ends up affecting third parties.
And your friend who thinks of selfishness and greed.
With love.