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The Sisi myth
| Posted at 05:10 PM on October 16, 2008 |
You can ask pretty much any random girl and she will tell you she has had a facination with the tragical Austrian emperess. Most of these girls never moved beyond the sugar-coated fairytales about 'Sissy' with Romy Schneider. Few know more than a few details about Elisabeth. They consider her to be a fairytale emperess whom died so tragically.
They only know the beautiful actress (whose life was just as tragical as that of the woman she portrayed) with her smile. Sisi, on the other hand, rarely smiled or laughed.
Sisi was an unhappy woman. Still a girl when she married and not by far ready for the strict Vienna courtlife, she sought refuge wherever she could, far from Vienna and it's people.
Life as a mother could not bring her happiness as her mother-in-law and aunt, archduchess Sophie, took the children from her as soon as she could and raised her. I personally believe that Sophie was far mor qualified for this that the slightly (at best) unstable Elisabeth, but of course this was a personal tragedy for Sisi. She once tried to defy Sophie, and took her two eldest children at one of her many journeys, but her eldest daughter died, she gave up and left the children under her aunt's care.
Married at the age of fifteen, she may have loved Franz-Joseph and he her (when he learned of her death, he spoke the famous words, "they do not know how much I loved this woman"), but for him, his work as emperor came before the spare things he enjoyed. He spent little time with his wife, and as a result she turned her attention to other things such as travels, her riding and her appearance. She prefered to be loved from afar, rejecting physical contact.
This again could be seen as an outing of her anorexia (this is among the characteristics which are contributed to this disease nowadays), which leads us to Sisi's obsession to stay young and beautiful.
Would I write a more detailed and thus more correct description of Elisabeth, it would take you hours to read it. I am merely writing this to give you a few looks at some things which influenced Sisi.
Many people instantly judge these days, but I believe that when you give a case (though it sounds a little harsh to refer to a person as a 'case') enought attention, everything can be explained and even understood. One cannot pass as much as a judgement before looking at the background of a case. There may be softening circumstances and it always depends on how you look at it.
So much for a lesson on moral...
They only know the beautiful actress (whose life was just as tragical as that of the woman she portrayed) with her smile. Sisi, on the other hand, rarely smiled or laughed.
Sisi was an unhappy woman. Still a girl when she married and not by far ready for the strict Vienna courtlife, she sought refuge wherever she could, far from Vienna and it's people.
Life as a mother could not bring her happiness as her mother-in-law and aunt, archduchess Sophie, took the children from her as soon as she could and raised her. I personally believe that Sophie was far mor qualified for this that the slightly (at best) unstable Elisabeth, but of course this was a personal tragedy for Sisi. She once tried to defy Sophie, and took her two eldest children at one of her many journeys, but her eldest daughter died, she gave up and left the children under her aunt's care.
Married at the age of fifteen, she may have loved Franz-Joseph and he her (when he learned of her death, he spoke the famous words, "they do not know how much I loved this woman"), but for him, his work as emperor came before the spare things he enjoyed. He spent little time with his wife, and as a result she turned her attention to other things such as travels, her riding and her appearance. She prefered to be loved from afar, rejecting physical contact.
This again could be seen as an outing of her anorexia (this is among the characteristics which are contributed to this disease nowadays), which leads us to Sisi's obsession to stay young and beautiful.
Would I write a more detailed and thus more correct description of Elisabeth, it would take you hours to read it. I am merely writing this to give you a few looks at some things which influenced Sisi.
Many people instantly judge these days, but I believe that when you give a case (though it sounds a little harsh to refer to a person as a 'case') enought attention, everything can be explained and even understood. One cannot pass as much as a judgement before looking at the background of a case. There may be softening circumstances and it always depends on how you look at it.
So much for a lesson on moral...
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