Content Blog: Describe Sissi

How is Sissi a gothic heroine? A better question to ask would involve how she ISN'T a heroine. Everything about Sissi screams gothic heroine. She was forced into a marriage she didn't ask for, stressed over her sister whose marriage she felt she ruined, lived a life of confinement and empirical oppression, had various mental diseases due to her unhappiness and became a depressed recluse during the end of her life due to her son's suicide. When looking at your typical Gothic heroine, we find an oppressed women who is shamed for her feelings, miserable and often ends up dead. As we see with Sissi, she ends up being assassinated in a chance meeting with a rebel. A "fitting" end to the very definition of a gothic heroine.