Content Blog - Sissi

Sissi was an empress quite like no other.  She was a gothic and empire heroine for many reasons.  Her marriage to Franz Joseph was arranged when she was very young, and she felt as though her freedom and youth were stripped away from her immediately after she entered the Empire.  She was forced to live a life of solitude and privacy.  The palaces in which she lived were prisons to her because she had few places to call her own.  Sissi was a symbol of Empire because of her beauty, politeness, and royalty.  She had no voice in the empire and she constantly felt lost within these walls of power.  Sissi also dealt with the tragic suicide of her son, Rudolf.  After his death she exclusively wore black and wasted her time traveling to different cities and wandering through gardens.  Sissi suffered a tragic death when she was murdered by an Italian anarchist.  Her life was one filled with restraint, hopelessness, and darkness.  She was a prisoner to the Empire and a gothic heroine.