Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria was the wife of 19th century Habsburg ruler, Franz Joseph I. She wed him at the ripe age of 16, and Franz only 23. Franz Joseph was the Emperor of Austria, the King of Hungary and also of Bohemia. Given that her husband was a man of great ruling, she had married herself into a world which attempted to give her a very formal lifestyle, and restrictive by court convention. The Duchess, better known as Sisi, which was her nickname, began to feel at odds with her new life. She had come from a close knit, loving family in Bavaria and felt great indifference to her surroundings of strictly organized protocol from the imperial courts of Vienna. Besides her history of being from a very different lifestyle, she also had a very free spirit that seemed to clash with her restrictive surroundings. She was very shy and didn't enjoy the publicity of being the emperor's wife; rather, she felt more like a puppet in a show. She had a great desire for freedom, which was a Bavarian family trait, and it left her with desires and aspirations that were completely different from the practical mind set of her husband. Although he loved her dearly, he was never successful at winning her emotional attachment. At the beginning of their marriage she did indeed, feel some affection for him, but they became increasingly fogged by all that he stood for, which Sisi unfortunately felt very foreign to. Unable to reconcile herself with the ornate role of spouse of the emperor, she began to seek out her own form of shelter by escaping her obligations. While her husband fulfilled his task with military discipline, Sisi became lost in her own different world. She learned to speak fluent English and French, and later Hungari... ... middle of paper ... ...endangerment of lung disease, and she left once again to Corfu in hope of a fresh cure. Throughout her life she battled sickness, which is now perceived as anorexia nervosa, and took regulated trips to different places, which she did not mind because they constantly freed her of the place she so detested. Although she was usually gone for months at a time, she did make trips back to Vienna, but her public appearances were very rare, and she greatly shied away from the public eye. Sisi's anorectic habits consumed her until the day of her death on September 10th, 1898. She underwent a vicious stabbing in Geneva by an Italian anarchist, who had actually chosen her fate in accident. He had planned the assassination of Prince Henry of Orleans, but when he never arrived he set his sights on the Duchess, whose presence in Geneva he had read about in the paper.
First, Empress Theodora was a person of great importance to her empire. For example, she helped build, “hostels to shelter the homeless,” (Almanac 7). This shows Theodora was not only concerned with the upper classes. This allows her to improve living conditions for her people. In addition, she helped improve equality for women, “Divorced women were granted rights such as the ability to remain guardians of
Sula was her own parasite, in that " a single parasite may cause considerable injury to, and eventually kill, the host," which she did (Simon 15). She internally killed herself by slowly eating away at her soul, which was also a part of Nel. Parasitic relationships can never last very long. However, Sula was unaware of that fact. Without Nel or Ajax, Sula had no The break between the surrogate host and the parasite, left Sula feeble and on the brink of death. She had nowhere to turn without the original host. Sul Nel so much, that Sula talked about her even after death. After Sula drew her last breath, she said, "it didn't even hurt. Wait'll I tell Nel" (Morrison 149). Her thoughts remained with her original interdependent partner. Sula went through an obstacle course of emotions and relationships. Poor choices were made, which led to her ultimate demise. However, her demise was her own choice. & nbsp; Works Cited Bulfinch, Tomas. Bulfinch's Mythology. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1947. Dudley, Ruth H. Partners in Nature. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc., 1965. Morrison, Toni. Sula. New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 1973. O'Neill, Cynthia. Goddesses, Heroes and Shamans. New York: Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Inc., 1994.
Eugenie Conntesse de Teba was born on May 5th 1826 in a small village in Spain called Granada. Eugenie was the daughter of a Spanish noble, who fought on the French side in Napoleons Peninsular war in Spain. Eugenie married Emperor Napoleon the III in January of 1853 and become the last Empress of the French. Empress Eugenie was a gorgeous woman who was number one in French society in 1870.
Empress Wu’s rise to power was due to her unwavering determination and ruthless spirit. She first entered the palace as a thirteen year old concubine and from an early age she realized the importance of raising her status. Wu was ‘not just another imperial consort… she was very much a political fig...
...oyd. She started acting again to tell the story of her spying. She died on stage because of a heart attack. She died at age 56.
She witnessed her first hardship when she had been only three years old. Her father, King Henry VIII, had ongoing suspicions about her mother’s strange behaviors, for he had suspected his second wife, Anne, to be performing the dishonorable act of adultery with more than five men of the palace’s chambers, one of the suspects being her own brother, stirring out a crime of incest and linking it to Anne. He then ordered the execution of Anne on the false charges of adultery which then stripped Princess Elizabeth of her title and left her going by Lady Elizabeth instead. Since Elizabeth had been declared illegitimate, many believed that she would never obtain the title queen. Fortunately for her, fate had it differently planned it out, and she grew to be the famous Virgin Queen of England.
At the age of 25, Portia De Rossi met the criteria for the eating feeding disorder of anorexia nervosa binging/purging type. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition people must meet all three criteria in order to be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa binging/purging type. These are a.) restrictive food intake and weighing below normal body weight b.) have an intense fear of gaining weight and c.) have distorted beliefs on body image. To meet the diagnostic for the binging/purging type the person with anorexia nervosa must also be having recurrent binging/purging episodes for at least 3 months. In the case of Portia De Rossi, she met such criteria at the age of 25. ......
“Fighting Anorexia” and “cookie monster” are two different articles based on research by some group of psychiatrists that focuses on eating disorder, which in psychology is referred to as a mental illness. Anorexia nervosa is a mental condition that describes a person’s obsession with food and the acute anxiety over weight gain (Newsweek cover, 2005). This disorder is categorized by an individual’s phobia on what to eat and what not to eat; as a result, the person begins to starve his or her self just to avoid adding more weight. The article published on the “Cookie Monster” expatiate on a research that describes how food is being used by some individuals to change their mood (McCarthy, 2001). This research shows that individuals especially college students try to subdue their emotions through the use of sweets and cookies. To further understand of these two experimental research in both articles, some important questions will be answered below.
Being too weak to fight against the virus, she died in a sanitarium in the
Gender was the leading cause of distress in the 1500’s: King Henry VIII wanted nothing more than to have a son, yet was “cursed” with the legacy of a frail son, whom died before the age of 18 and two daughters, one of whom broke every convention of her gender. Queen Elizabeth I never married nor had children, yet can be considered one of England’s most successful monarchs. By choosing King James VI of Scotland as her heir, unbeknownst to her, she created the line that leads to the modern Queen of England, Elizabeth II. The question posed is then, how did Elizabeth I’s gender affect her rule?
Voltaire once said, “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” This quote makes me remember that as much pleasure food may bring us, we should never forget that we need it to survive. I guessed most of us don’t, but once again, I remembered there are some people that do. If we were to look the world as a whole, we would realize that from every 100 teenage girls, 1 to 5 suffers from anorexia.
The Western perspective on the Dowager Empress is harsh and W.G. Sebald is perhaps the harshest of all of the Western historians. One of Sebald’s first descriptions of the Empress is that her “craving for power was insatiable” (Sebald 147). Sebald wastes no time in backing up this claim. At the cru...
Her imperfection was that she was too nice, to the point of causing her husband to feel jealous of the others she talked to. She always accepted peoples gifts to her with the same graciousness that she had used when her husband asked her to marry him (My Last Duchess, lines 32-35). The perfect wife would have held her marriage above all else, which she apparently did not. She did not seem to value ...
...dition, so the doctor thought that this weakness was the reason she died.What really killed her was being put back into the role that was forced and expected of her. When her husband walked in, all of her feminine freedom vanished.
According to Persepolis the British convince the shah to be the next emperor, using him as a Holy symbol to unify the country. The fact that the law promotes more insecurity, injustice, and inequality than stability, gave rise to some of the ideas of Marxism and liberalism. Although religion and woman roles were related in Iran culture, when Satrapi was young, she did not fell oppressed or discriminated religiously wise. For her, to be a woman was not an impediment for anything. However she still wanted equality in a very Marxist way. She read "the dialect of materialism."(Satrapi 12) she wanted to be a prophet. She wanted to change the world, as a woman, and as socialist. She, as an innocent child did not see any limitation on was a prophet while been a woman. she wanted her maid to eat with them. She wanted for everybody to have Cadillac. She did not want her grandmother to suffer pain. She wanted to be a prophet so she could fix things that she sees that her society does wrong. She wanted a better world to live