Content blog: #4

Describe Sisi and explain how she is an Empire heroine.

Sisi was a young girl from Bavaria who married her cousin, the Emperor of the Austrian Empire Franz Joseph, at just fifteen years old, giving up her young carefree life for a life of an Empress. Sisi perfectly embodies everything the Empire was not, and she would fight the Empire until her assassination in 1898. She hated everything about the Empire, the customs, the people, court life, even the Hofburg and Schoenbrunn. After the suicide of her son Rudolf she hardly spent more than a few months at either of the palaces, spending her time traveling the world and avoiding her life. Throughout her life and after her death Sisi became a classic Gothic heroine as well as an Empire heroine because of her resistance to the Empire, towards the end of her life she stopped attending royal events all together. Her life that became a series of unfortunate events, with the suicide of her son and the only heir to the Austrian throne, and the tragic death of her sister. As well as the idea that she was caged by the Empire, having to give up her life in Bavaria along with many of the things she loved to do.