GOODBYE!!!

Well, it's the end of term. It went by soooo fast! Well, this is goodbye. It was a great class and am glad I was a part of it. Goodluck everyone next term!! Happy exams.

Her's my little boys. My b-day present in sept. GUS (top) and RUSTY (bottom)

Yeah, they get their good looks from me.

Eliza Haywood

Well, this was a good way to end the term. Although I wasn't a big fan of Betsy Thoughtless, she did however, leave the wrong man in the end. As we've seen many marriages in our readings turn out unhappy or even forced upon women, it's nice to see a happy ending. I'm guessing that men would have been quite resentful of ms. Haywood as she was a new age thinker that thought that women had another choice. Although I wasn't a fan of the read, I was a fan of the message. I can just hear the women readers of her during the time.."you go girl"

Fantomina, however was enjoyable to read. The fact that she had to change personas so many times in oder to please only one man was just pathetic-of the man. She was trying to change herself to make him love her. but isn't it a testament of the man's psychology that he needed all these different women to make him happy?? I think the moral of the story was not to change yourself for anyone. .We discussed how it was a cautionary tale to women of the time not to act like this, but I think it was also a moral story about the double standard. Why was it that she got in trouble for doing these "immoral acts" when the man was never even thought to be in the wrong for sleeping with what he thought to be four different women. Perhaps Haywood and Mary Wroth would have been great friends if they had lived in the same time century. There sure would be some male bashing going on at that tea party! Well, if nothing else let it be a lesson to all young girls, Don't ever change yourself for a man! He's just not that into you