Sissi is the younger sister of Nene. Nene was supposed to be
the one who married Emperor Franz Joseph, however the Emperor fell in love with
Sissi. Sissi was more of a care free spirit before she got married. She loved
to go hunting, horseback riding, feeding her animals etc. which is what the
Emperor loved most about her. Sissi did not want to marry Joseph because she
did not want to take away the man that was supposed to marry her older sister
and she also did not want to become Empress of Austria, after all she was still
just a child. When the two got married Sissi was only 16 years old and Joseph
was 23. Sissi is easily once who could be the Gothic heroine in a novel because
she has all of the characteristics that make up the typical Gothic heroine.
After she got married, her mother-in-law became more of a monster-in-law to
her. She made Sissi have a forced behaviour and told her that she was no longer
allowed to go out and ride/ attend to the horses, feed her birds, go hunting
because she was now in the public eye and it was not considered very lady like.
Sissi became lonely and depressed because she was surrounded by a lot of death,
was isolated and separated from her family inside the palace. She yearned for a
better lifestyle because she felt like she did not fit in.
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