Again, I plan on creating a creative work as a reading response. For this reading response I wanted to do a continuation of Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina. A story that tells us what happened after “Fantomina” was sent off to a monastery to live the rest of her life in celibate, religious service. How does the femme fatale react to a simple solitary lifestyle after having the love adventure of a lifetime?
I had debated whether Fantomina was going to escape the monastery or not, but given that the abbess is her mother’s friend she would have been kept under close watch. And it would ruin her if she left and that seems to matter to her more than anything else. I think that she would be complacent at first due to her conserved nature when not pretending to be someone else; but I think that she would slowly start to rebel in her own way. Or she would take this time to reflect on her past and after years she would come to realize something about herself and life.
One of the interesting qualities of Fantomina is the slight infusion of first person and third person perspective/narration. Fantomina is the one telling the story, but it’s like she is talking in the third …show more content…
I think that with my rendition there will definitely be a different emotion to it, but that is mostly due to the difference in authors. I know that I will not be able to quite match Haywood’s elegance of language, but I think that by utilizing certain words over others I can better match Haywood’s elegance. The emotion, in a way, matches the narration with a dichotomy that both repels and sucks in the reader. The emotion seemed distant but when Haywood wanted you to pay attention and feel anything, whether it was hatred or disappointment towards the characters you felt it. She has this undertone throughout the whole piece that controls these dichotomies, and I don’t think that I can quite explain it correctly. But I’ll