Elizabeth Bathory Research Paper
Elizabeth Bathory, a wealthy and powerful noblewoman, was born on August 7th, 1560, in Transylvania, Hungary. Nicknamed “The Blood Countess”, Elizabeth allegedly (as supposedly documented in her diary found in the Csejthe Castle) slaughtered six hundred and twelve women--servants, peasants, and maidens alike, to which she notoriously bathed in their blood believing it aided in maintaining her youthful, milky white complexion. Even if one were to take only a tenth of the number she was confirmed and perhaps even rumored to have killed--which would make it around sixty--this number would still record her as the world’s most prolific female serial killer.
Childhood:
Elizabeth Bathory was born into extreme wealth and a lavish lifestyle. Nevertheless, …show more content…
Even in the early stages of her childhood, Elizabeth Bathory was deemed to be insane, with her violent throes that were too dramatic to be tantrums, random seizures, and extreme fits of rage caused by epilepsy. Elizabeth’s family members were also of cruel blood. At an young age, Elizabeth witnessed her parents, her father’s officers, along with her uncle (Polish King Istvan Bathory) and other members in her family's home dehumanize and mistreat peasants in the estate area as well as their own servants. One significant event in her childhood that historians can agree may have triggered Elizabeth’s later years of cold-blooded acts was the instant where a gypsy thief was caught stealing from a market and, as punishment, sewn into the dying stomach of a horse and left to perish. This gypsy’s death was presented as a public spectacle, one especially thrilling for nobles whom attended; no sympathy was shown for the man nor was there remorse planted on the executioners faces. Unfortunately, young Elizabeth Bathory ecstatically enjoyed observing this scene being carried out. Further which, this incident had convinced her that commoners who were under her were merely toys that could be tortured and immolated for entertainment with exemption and without fear of retaliation. This constant exposure to absurd violence, her family’s condoning attitude towards it, and her own chronicle mental disorders were the most prominent aspects that conceivably
Childhood:
Elizabeth Bathory was born into extreme wealth and a lavish lifestyle. Nevertheless, …show more content…
Even in the early stages of her childhood, Elizabeth Bathory was deemed to be insane, with her violent throes that were too dramatic to be tantrums, random seizures, and extreme fits of rage caused by epilepsy. Elizabeth’s family members were also of cruel blood. At an young age, Elizabeth witnessed her parents, her father’s officers, along with her uncle (Polish King Istvan Bathory) and other members in her family's home dehumanize and mistreat peasants in the estate area as well as their own servants. One significant event in her childhood that historians can agree may have triggered Elizabeth’s later years of cold-blooded acts was the instant where a gypsy thief was caught stealing from a market and, as punishment, sewn into the dying stomach of a horse and left to perish. This gypsy’s death was presented as a public spectacle, one especially thrilling for nobles whom attended; no sympathy was shown for the man nor was there remorse planted on the executioners faces. Unfortunately, young Elizabeth Bathory ecstatically enjoyed observing this scene being carried out. Further which, this incident had convinced her that commoners who were under her were merely toys that could be tortured and immolated for entertainment with exemption and without fear of retaliation. This constant exposure to absurd violence, her family’s condoning attitude towards it, and her own chronicle mental disorders were the most prominent aspects that conceivably