The Many Faces of Fantomina

October 9, 2007 jocelynchamberlain

My first initial thought of Fantomina was that how could someone not realize that they had slept with the same woman numerous times. There has to be some distinguishing factors that would have been noticable to the person. Although, taking into account that during this period lighting was more than less agreeable, likely very dark. Also it was more probable that it was protocol for the woman to de-robe in the dark. Thus leaving no visible appearance for the male to see of the woman naked.

I did find it odd that the woman did not want to lose her honor, but was more than willing to put herself up as a prositute. Why would someone go about pretending to be a prositute if they did not intend to do the job that was expected of the prositute? Then all of a sudden she goes from not wanting to give up her virtue, to completely giving it up and contining the act she very much did not want to do.

Overall, I did really enjoy the story. It was interesting to think that a women could fool a man so many times without him even knowing. Today it would more likely impossible to trick a man this way, for there are so many different ways of distinghuishing between woman (ie: tattoos, piercings, etc…)