Hers is a morality tale in its own way, a confession and a moral instruction of what not to do (Hotz 2001:1). Unlike Fantomina, Eloisa's morality tale is self-generated, apparently, and lacks the guiding sense of a moralizing, authorial voice. But even in her own words, Eloisa 'authors' a kind of envisioned public place of worship, repentance, and homage to God that transcends the material she worshipped with Abelard. Perhaps the main contrast between these two, equally self-dramatizing heroines and authors is that the love of Pope's Abelard and Eloisa is eternal, unlike the love of Fantomina. "[Beauplaisir] varied not so much from his Sex as to be able to prolong Desire, to any great Length after Possession: The rifled Charms of Fantomina soon lost their Poinancy, and grew tastless and insipid; and when the Season of the Year inviting the Company to the Bath, she offer'd to accompany him, he made an Excuse to go without her (Hayward 268). The love men feel for Fantomina is transient, and her love cannot endure confinement behind convent walls, rather her confinement ends the story. Eventually learning she was "in a Condition," Fantomina is sent "to a Monastery in France...And thus ended an Intreague, which, considering the Time it lasted, was as full of Variety as any,...

Fantomina is hidden away from the public realm of desire utterly, the ultimate punishment for someone who allowed herself to be corrupted by desire. But Eloisa, too, in her convent lives on, and continues to reflect upon her errors, hidden from the world that corrupted her innocence, and still offering herself as an example of the dangers of love and the failure to obey the correct laws of society rather than her private whims of desire.
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