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juni 4, 2026 · 6:33 pm

Bridgerton/Voor wie waren Anthony Bridgerton’s laatste gedachten vlak voor het duel met Simon Basset?

tree against golden sun
VOOR WIE WAREN ANTHONY BRIDGERTON’S LAATSTE GEDACHTEN VLAK VOOR HET DUEL MET SIMON BASSET?
6– Leg mij als een zegel aan uw hart
als een zegel aan uw arm.
Want sterk als de dood is de liefde
onverbiddelijk als het rijk van de doden de hartstocht,
haar vlammen zijn vuurvlammen,
een vuurgloed des Heren.
7Vele wateren kunnen de liefde niet blussen
en rivieren spoelen haar niet weg.
Al bood iemand alles wat hij bezit voor de liefde,

smadelijk zou men hem afwijzen.”

https://www.bible.com/nl/bible/328/SNG.8.NBG51

HOOGLIED, OUDE TESTAMENT
HALLO FOLKS
Daar is ze weer, na kort geleden een Geweldige Post met jullie te hebben gedeeld [1]
Weet je nog?
Het ging over de Vraag, of Anthony een doodswens had, die zijn wens tot duelleren had getriggerd
Zie noot 2!
Maar nu wil ik het hebben over een Thema, dat zeer tot de verbeelding spreekt
en veel Bridgerton Fans zal raken:
Waaraan denk je, als je de Dood al bijna kan ruiken…..
Dat overkwam Anthony Bridgerton vlak voor hij het duel aanging met zijn beste vriend Simon Basset, om de Eer van zijn zuster Daphne [3]
Nu is een Duel al niet niks vanwege de reeele stervenskans [4] ook al was ”herstel van de Eer”  bijna een tweede identiteit bij aristocraten in Regency Tijd [5], maar dan ook nog duelleren tegen je beste vriend met wie je veel dieps hebt gedeeld [6],
dat gaat je niet in je kouwe kleren zitten, zeker niet als je emotioneel op dun ijs danst. [7]
En dat was met Anthony het geval.
Want naast de in zijn lichaam gierende adrenaline vanwege de uitdaging voor het duel aan zijn beste vriend Simon Basset [om de eer van zijn zuster Daphne] [8], wat natuurlijk grote emotionele en fysieke inspanning met zich meebracht, die toenam naarmate het fatale ”Duel” moment naderde [9], was er meer.
Veel meer.
VADER TRAUMA/VEELEISENDE MOEDER
Want stel je eens voor, Lezers, dat je een aristocratische jongeman bent van
18 jaar in Regency Tijd, die het aan niets ontbreekt en naar de ogen wordt gezien als de oudste zoon van een druk, maar liefdevol gezin [10]
Je leidt een onbezorgd leven, bent rijk, gepriviligeerd, hebt leuke en waardevolle connecties, bezoekt regelmatig de club en ander vermaak en koestert een diepe vriendschap [11]
En DAN,ja DAN, slaat het noodlot toe.
Je vader [Anthony”s vader dus] overlijdt aan de gevolgen van een bijesteek en
wat het traumatisch maakt is dat je [Anthony dus] daar zelf bij aanwezig bent,
dus je ziet je vader voor je ogen sterven [12
En weg is het zorgeloze bestaan.
Want niet alleen dompelde de dood van zijn vader Anthony in diepe rouw,
veel erger was nog, dat hij niet de kans kreeg om te rouwen, want nu was de
positie van de oudste zoon niet meer een ”convenient privilege” [13], maar immense een last, die op zijn schouders ging drukken [14], omdat hij nu, als
oudste zoon die vrijwel alles had geerfd, het hele landgoed of landgoederen
moest bestieren, het wettelijke Hoofd werd van de Familie-wat inhield
de wettelijke verantwoordelijkheid voor zijn [zeven] jongere broers en zusters. [15]
Voor zijn moeder, die als ”’sole femme” een vrij onafhankelijke positie
innam [16] was hij wettelijk niet verantwoordelijk.
Wel was de moeder in Regency Tijd vaak financieel afhankelijk van haar zoon [vooral als haar weduwenpensioen slecht geregeld was in de huwelijkse voorwaarden],  had zij geen enkele zeggenschap over zijn beheer van landgoed en familiekapitaal en de zoon bepaalde ook of zij in het ”hoofdhuis” mocht blijven wonen of dat zij naar het dower house moest vertrekken [16]
Hierdoor ontstond een afhankelijkheidsrelatie, die weer kon leiden
tot verstoorde verhoudingen.
EN DIE VERSTOORDE VERHOUDINGEN KWAMEN ER!
VERSTOORDE VERHOUDINGEN EN TOENEMENDE SPANNINGEN TUSSEN ANTHONY EN ZIJN MOEDER LADY VIOLET
De toenemende spanningen tussen Anthony en zijn moeder Lady Violet waren hoogst zorgwekkend.
Nu was moeder Violet ook getraumatiseerd, want ook zij was getuige geweest
van het overlijden van haar man, met wie zij een zeer gelukkig huwelijk had gehad,
dus begrijpelijkerwijs kon zij na zijn dood lange tijd niet functionneren, waarbij zij
ook nog een zware bevalling had van haar jongste dochter Hyacinth, die dus
na de dood van haar vader werd geboren. [17]
Hoezeer begrijpelijk ook, daardoor kwam naast het beheer van de landgoederen
en het familiekapitaal, het runnen van de dagelijkse gang van zaken en de
opvoeding van de andere 7 kinderen, voor rekening
van de 18 jarige Anthony. [18]
Een dergelijke belasting wordt ook wel Parentificatie genoemd. [19]
Was dat op zich al [onredelijk] zwaar, nog zwaarder was het feit -en daaraan kon Violet WEL wat aan doen- dat Violet, in plaats van waardering te tonen voor
de grote last op de schouders van haar 18 jarige zoon, die normaal zou hebben gefeest, naar de club was gegaan met vrienden en plezier had gemaakt, voortdurend zet te klagen, Anthony overdreven streng en onredelijk op zijn ”fouten” wees, en er ook nog eens fijntjes op wees, dat zijn overleden vader
het zo veel beter zou hebben gedaan [20] [ja, nogal logisch, die had jaren ervaring!]
Dat Anthony ook zijn persoonlijke noden en behoeften had, daarvoor had Violet geen oog.
Nu was dat geen bewuste emotionele verwaarlozing [hoewel de effecten hetzelfde waren], omdat Violet, die overigens veel en diep van Anthony hield, zelf nog
diep in haar rouwproces zat.
En daarbij schuurde het natuurlijk ook dat zij, als weduwe, geen enkele juridische macht kon laten gelden en geen enkele zeggenschap had over het beheer van de landgoederen en het familiekapitaal [21], wat geheel lag in de handen van haar 18 jarige zoon, die geen enkele ervaring had in de harde Regency Ton wereld, waarin je zelfs
voor een kleine misstap keihard kon worden afgerekend. [22]
En met dat Vader Trauma [getuige van de dood van zijn vader] en de zware belasting door zijn nieuwe positie EN de onverwerkte rouw van zijn moeder
[waar zij niets aan kon doen], En haar harde opstelling [waar zij wel wat aan kon doen], was emotioneel nog het pijnlijkst, dat Violet voor haar 7 andere kinderen WEL tederheid toonde, met name jegens oudste dochter Daphne [23], terwijk
Anthony voornamelijk moederlijk misprijzen, emotionele verwaarlozing en
emotionele chantage [je vader zou het zoveel beter doen] naar zijn hoofd kreeg geslingerd……[24]
EMOTIONELE BREUK/SIENA ROSSO
De Relatie tussen moeder en zoon bereikte een absoluut dieptepunt [dat zich nooit meer volledig zou herstellen [25], toen Anthony verliefd werd op
operazangeres Siena Rosso [26], met wie hij een langdurige Liefdes affaire kreeg. [27]
Dat Violet daar op zijn zachtst gezegd niet blij mee was, omdat operazangeressen
in Regency Tijd werden gezien als ”immoreel” en een eventueel huwelijk
tussen een aristocraat en een operazangeres direct tot de ”sociale dood” zou leiden [28] was begrijpelijk.
NIET begrijpelijk en absoluut onvergeeflijk was de manier waarop zij ermee omging, door Siena te reduceren tot ”a certain soprano” [29] waarvoor je je zou moeten schamen [30] en gemener nog, later helemaal niet meer naar haar verwijzen, maar of te verwijzen naar de manier waarop Anthony zijn plichten zou
verzaken of hem emotioneel te chanteren met zijn overleden vader [31]
Dit grijpt heel diep bij Anthony, wiens liefde voor Siena diep zit [32]
en het is onbegrijpelijk dat Violet niet lijkt te beseffen, dat zij met het neerhalen van Siena, haar zoon diep raakt [33] [hoewel de nerveuze lading in haar stem bij het uitspreken van ”a certain soprano” een ogenblik angst verraadt voor de kloof die tussen haar zoon en haar aan het ontstaan is….[33AA]
En DAT het hem diep raakte, liet hij niet direct zien in die confrontatie met zijn moeder [waarschijnlijk uit zelfbescherming] [33A], maar was duidelijk te zien aan zijn gezicht vol pijn, toen hij tegen Siena sprak over ”.in a place where you and I might be accepted where not the shame nor
incriminations that this society grants us”[33B]
Voor Violet mag Siena dan een ”schandaal” zijn, voor Anthony is zij zijn hele wereld [34]
En het meest trieste is nog, dat Violet, die echt en veel van Anthony houdt, niet beseft., dat zij met haar destructieve en manipulerende gedrag een kille en emotionele afstand tussen haar en Anthony creert, die ook na haar selectieve excuses in Seizoen 2 nooit meer volledig zal herstellen, ook niet nadat hij
hernieuwd geluk heeft gevonden bij Kate Sharma [35]
OKAY, VIOLET’S DRUK WAS IMMENS [36]
En door haar Druk maakte hij aanvankelijk de relatie uit [37], maar iedere keer ging hij weer naar haar terug [38] , want de liefde was te sterk om weg te blijven.
Een Voorbeeld daarvan is een scene, waarbij zij tijdelijk uit elkaar zijn en
Anthony een bokswedstrijd bezoekt waar Siena aanwezig is met een andere man.
In het lawaai en tumult van die bokswedstrijd ziet Anthony Siena en heeft voor niets anders meer oog. Na een tijdje ziet zij hem ook en ze lijken als
magneten naar elkaar toe te worden getrokken.
Een scene later staan ze onder dat boxplatform en bedrijven de liefde…..
Zie onder noot 39 de gepassioneerde en ook wanhopige scene, die onderstreept, dat hun liefdesrelatie alleen mogelijk was achter gesloten deuren of ”op stiekeme plekken”  [40]
HET DUEL
WAT ERAAN VOORAFGING
En hier komt dat Duel Drama aan
Want hoe pijnlijk moet het niet zijn om je beste vriend [want Anthony en Simon waren boezemvrienden] [41] uit te dagen voor een Duel op Leven
en Dood, dat ze geen van beiden wilden, maar hierin had Anthony geen keuze, omdat het ging om de Eer van zijn zuster…..[42]
VANWEGE TRAUMA’S EN DRUK TEGEN EEN NERVOUS BREAK DOWN AAN, NOG GETRIGGERD DOOR GEDWONGEN ”DUBBELLEVEN”
Nu kwam alles in Anthony’s emotionele Staat samen:
Het Trauma over zijn vader [hem hebben zien sterven], de zware Last
van het runnen van de landgoederen en het Familiekapitaal, een moeder die je emotioneel verwaarloost, moreel chanteert met je overleden vader en probeert je Liefdesaffaire te saboteren en dan ook nog een Duel,,,,,,,
genoeg om te leiden tot een ”nervous breakdown”
Nu, in moderne terminologie zat Anthony dus heel dicht tegen een
”nervous breakdown” aan….[43]
Maar nervous breakdown of niet [44], van een Edelman in Regency Tijd werd verwacht dat hij zijn emotionele gevoelens verborg [45], want ”the show must go on” ……..
En dat alles ook nog eens onder de paraplu van zijn gedwongen ”dubbelleven” [Enerzijds het half verborgen samenzijn met de vrouw van wie hij hield [46], wat een gepassioneerd en fel sex leven triggerde [47],  anderszijds zijn ”openbare leven” met zijn Familie, contacten en aristocratische netwerk]
Dit alles genoeg om zich als Lezer of Kijker naar Bridgerton af te vragen:
HOE LUKTE HET ANTHONY BRIDGERTON OM NOG ‘S MORGENS ZIJN BED UIT TE KOMEN, MET AL DIE EMOTIONELE SPANNINGEN
EN STRESS?
SIENA ALS VEILIGE HAVEN
Hoe ingewikkeld en paradoxaal dat ook mag klinken [vanwege de stress van dat dubbelleven]
Ik denk dat wat Anthony op de been hield en zijn Veilige Haven was, Siena was.
Kijk lezers, Siena was de enige persoon [behalve misschien zijn beste vriend Simon, maar tegen hem ging hij nu juist duelleren…] bij wie Anthony zich in die Dagen van Verwarring veilig voelde.
Zij was een felle en gepassioneerde vrouw, wat hun liefdesuitingen, ook
door het pure overlevingskarakter [hoe lang en wanneer konden ze weer
samenzijn], heftig maakte [48], maar ook heel warm en liefhebbend.
Bij haar hoefde hij even geen Viscount te zijn, strak in het pak, gebonden aan alle Ton regels, met een extreem veeleisende moeder [ook al besefte zij, eerlijk is eerlijk, niet altijd hoe zwaar het voor haar zoon was], met landgoederen, die moesten worden gerund, met zusters die moesten
worden uitgehuwelijkt] [49]
Zij was zijn Bron van Warmte, zijn Haardvuur, tegen de kille muren van eisen en verplichtingen van Aubrey Hall…..
Niet alleen hield hij diep van haar [50], hij kwam ook bij haar tot
rust en zij beschermde hem even tegen de druk van de buitenwereld.
Zij was misschien wel de enige, die niet constant aan hem trok, constant eisen aan hem stelde……[50A]
In haar armen kwam hij even tot rust……
VOORAFGAANDE AAN HET DUEL
DE LAATSTE AVOND
EN:
Een Diep Bewijs van zijn Liefde was wel de Plaats waar hij aan de vooravond van het Duel doorbracht
Bij Siena, die, nogmaals, voor hem bij alle op hem geladen stress [51] zijn Warme en Veilige Haven was.
Is ze Heftig?
JA
Op het Rauwe af?  [52]
JA,  [ik kan me ze vechtend over de grond zien rollen [52A]
Maar ze is wel zijn Wereld, zijn Warmte, zijn Haardvuur
HAAR Plek is de Plek  waar hij geen krampachtige toneeltjes hoefde op te voeren, maar zichzelf kon zijn, met losgeknoopte jasjes, een rommelig, maar warm bed.
Een slordig neergesmeten glas whisky.
Een Man
Geen Viscount
ALS DE VOLGENDE DAG JE LAATSTE MORGEN ZOU ZIJN……
En stel je voor:
Je gaat misschien de volgende dag dood en het is misschien je laatste
Avond op deze Aarde
Maar je brengt die niet met je Familie door
Je bent niet bezig met het maken van je testament [53A]
Je neemt geen Afscheid van een moeder, die misschien veeleisend
en destructief is, maar [53] toch je moeder is.
Je kiest in je laatste uren voor het samenzijn met een vrouw, die in je moeder’s ogen nauwelijks een mens is [54]
Dat zegt genoeg……
DE AVOND VOOR HET DUEL/HET SAMENZIJN MET SIENA
Het begint al direct geladen.
Je ziet Anthony whisky drinkend in de club en spelend met
het geerfde horloge van zijn vader.
Hij ziet dat het bijna twaalf uur is, zet zijn glas abrupt neer en vertrekt [55]
De intense opgewonden, emotionele Staat waarin hij zich bevindt [56]
is direct te zien in de volgende scene.
Hij staat op de deur van een appartement te bonzen, alsof zijn leven ervan afhangt [57] en de deur gaat met een ruk open, waardoor hij bijna naar
binnen tuimelt.
Het is Siena, die hem op felle, emotionele toon toebijt:
”I believe you strayed far from home tonight”‘
[”Ik geloof, dat u vanavond ver van huis bent!”]
Zij wil de deur weer dichtsmijten [kennelijk was het weer tijdelijk ”uit” geweest tussen hen”]
Maar Anthony houdt haar tegen
en begint op een super gejaagde, met adrenaline geladen, emotionele toon te praten:
””Siena alsjeblieft…….we kunnen niet samen zijn…..ik weet nu, dat dat niet zal
worden toegestaan……maar als we nou…..als we nou in een andere situatie
waren…..op een plek waar jij en ik geaccepteerd zouden worden…..waar we
niet over ons heen zouden krijgen dat onze relatie schandelijk zou zijn en iets
om je voor te schamen, zoals in deze samenleving ….[58]
Zou je mij dan willen hebben……!”
Ze staat bij de deuropening, luistert tegen wil en dank met een vermoeid, maar intens verdrietig gezicht en antwoordt hem, dat het maar dromen zijn en hij haar van haar slaap berooft en gaat naar binnen, maar deze keer zonder hem buiten te sluiten.
Wanneer hij haar vertelt over het aanstaande Duel, draait ze
zich, geschrokken, met een ruk om en kijkt hem intens aan:
””Een Erekwestie?”
Dan vervolgt Anthony, intens, heftig door de gierende adrenaline:
””Als ik met zonsopgang nog leef, dan ben ik vrij.
Vrij van deze samenleving, vrij van al die regels, die ons uit elkaar
houden, we kunnen samen weggaan en dit alles achter ons laten
Siena…….” [59]
Ze kijken elkaar fel, intens en wanhopig aan, maar als Siena niet reageert
op Anthony’s woorden, stamelt hij excuses waarbij hij geemotioneerd stamelt, dat hij haar geduld ”voor de laatste keer heeft getart en loopt weg
Siena staat even verstard, schiet dan naar voren, grijpt hem heftig vast, trekt hem naar zich toe en zij vinden elkaar in een heftige, wanhopige omhelzing, waarbij zij zijn gezicht vastgrijpt en zijn kleren openscheurt
en hij haar optilt.
Zich realiserend dat zij in het Vuur van hun wanhopige Passie haar deur nog heeft openstaan, smijt zij deze met een klap dicht, waarna hij haar optilt en haar meevoert, ver van nieuwsgierige ogen…..[60]
Na de Nacht samen te hebben doorgebracht, staat hij voor Dageraad op,
buigt zich voorzichtig over de slapende Siena heen, geeft haar een kus
en vertrekt…..
ADRENALINE!
BIJ DAGERAAD
HET DUEL EN ANTHONY’S LAATSTE GEDACHTEN
EN NU…..THE BIG QUESTION LEZERS…..
Voor WIE waren nu Anthony’s laatste Gedachten?
DIT IS WAT ER GEBEURDE:
Bij Dageraad arriveren Anthony en zijn broer Benedict, die zijn secondant bij het duel is [61] op het Duelleerveld.
Kort daarna arriveren Simon Basset en zijn goede vriend Will Mondrich, die zijn secondant is [62], eveneens. [63A]
EN DAN, vlak voordat dat Duel zal beginnen, trekt Anthony Benedict opzij
en vraagt hem heel dringend en gejaagd, voor financieel voor Siena te zorgen, als hij mocht sterven [in feite vertelt hij Benedict, dat er in de
bovenste lade van zijn bureau een brief ligt met de naam van een dame, voor wie financieel gezorgd moet worden en letterlijk zegt hij ”Ensure she is provided for”] [Verzeker mij, dat je voor haar zal zorgen] [63]
Benedict belooft dat, maar dat is Anthony nog niet genoeg:
Hij wil dat Benedict dit ZWEERT
Letterlijk zegt hij ”SWEAR IT!” [64]
En je ZIET ook de Emotie bij Benedict, als hij het zweert…..[65]
En daarmee Lezers, hebben jullie dan het Antwoord op de Vraag, voor wie Anthony Bridgerton’s Laatste Gedachten waren en daarmee ook het ultieme bewijs voor zijn diepe en echte Liefde voor Siena! [66]
Want aan wie denk je in misschien wel de laatste minuten van je leven?
JUIST
Aan Datgene, dat je het dierbaarst is op deze Aarde [67]
Zo ook Anthony Bridgerton
Op het laatst dacht niet aan het Familie Beheer van de Landgoederen
Niet aan zijn broers en zusters
Zelfs geen gedachte aan zijn Moeder, die Benedict moest overbrengen, terwijl hij toch wist [of in ieder geval kon weten], dat zijn dood zijn moeder kapot zou maken….
Nee…..zijn laatste gedachten waren voor die Ene Persoon, die
hem het dierbaarst was
En dat was Siena
Voor HAAR moest gezorgd worden [68]
Dat was het Laatste Verzoek aan zijn broer……..
ASTRID ESSED
NOTEN
NOTEN 1 T/M 3
NOOT 4
NOOT 5
NOOT 6
NOOT 7
NOOT 8
NOOT 9
NOOT 10
NOOT 11
NOOT 12
NOOT 13
NOTEN 14 T/M 16
NOTEN 17 T/M 19
NOTEN 20 T/M 22
NOTEN 23 EN 24
NOTEN 25 T/M 27
NOOT 28
NOOT 29
NOOT 30
NOOT 31
NOOT 32
NOOT 33
NOOT 33AA
NOOT 33A
NOOT 33B
NOOT 34
NOOT 35
NOOT 36
NOTEN 37 EN 38
NOOT 39
NOOT 40
NOTEN 41 EN 42
NOOT 43
NOTEN 44 EN 45
NOOT 46
NOOT 47
NOOT 48
NOTEN 49 EN 50
NOOT 50A
NOOT 51
NOOT 52
NOOT 52A
NOOT 53A
NOOT 53
NOOT 54
NOTEN 55 EN 56
NOOT 57
NOOT 58
NOTEN 59 EN 60
NOOT 61
NOOT 62
NOOT 63A
NOOT 63
NOOT 64
NOOT 65
NOTEN 66 EN 67
NOOT 68

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Voor wie waren Anthony Bridgerton’s laatste gedachten vlak voor het duel met Simon Basset?

tree against golden sun
VOOR WIE WAREN ANTHONY BRIDGERTON’S LAATSTE GEDACHTEN VLAK VOOR HET DUEL MET SIMON BASSET?
6– Leg mij als een zegel aan uw hart
als een zegel aan uw arm.
Want sterk als de dood is de liefde
onverbiddelijk als het rijk van de doden de hartstocht,
haar vlammen zijn vuurvlammen,
een vuurgloed des Heren.
7Vele wateren kunnen de liefde niet blussen
en rivieren spoelen haar niet weg.
Al bood iemand alles wat hij bezit voor de liefde,

smadelijk zou men hem afwijzen.”

https://www.bible.com/nl/bible/328/SNG.8.NBG51

HOOGLIED, OUDE TESTAMENT
HALLO FOLKS
Daar is ze weer, na kort geleden een Geweldige Post met jullie te hebben gedeeld [1]
Weet je nog?
Het ging over de Vraag, of Anthony een doodswens had, die zijn wens tot duelleren had getriggerd
Zie noot 2!
Maar nu wil ik het hebben over een Thema, dat zeer tot de verbeelding spreekt
en veel Bridgerton Fans zal raken:
Waaraan denk je, als je de Dood al bijna kan ruiken…..
Dat overkwam Anthony Bridgerton vlak voor hij het duel aanging met zijn beste vriend Simon Basset, om de Eer van zijn zuster Daphne [3]
Nu is een Duel al niet niks vanwege de reeele stervenskans [4] ook al was ”herstel van de Eer”  bijna een tweede identiteit bij aristocraten in Regency Tijd [5], maar dan ook nog duelleren tegen je beste vriend met wie je veel dieps hebt gedeeld [6],
dat gaat je niet in je kouwe kleren zitten, zeker niet als je emotioneel op dun ijs danst. [7]
En dat was met Anthony het geval.
Want naast de in zijn lichaam gierende adrenaline vanwege de uitdaging voor het duel aan zijn beste vriend Simon Basset [om de eer van zijn zuster Daphne] [8], wat natuurlijk grote emotionele en fysieke inspanning met zich meebracht, die toenam naarmate het fatale ”Duel” moment naderde [9], was er meer.
Veel meer.
VADER TRAUMA/VEELEISENDE MOEDER
Want stel je eens voor, Lezers, dat je een aristocratische jongeman bent van
18 jaar in Regency Tijd, die het aan niets ontbreekt en naar de ogen wordt gezien als de oudste zoon van een druk, maar liefdevol gezin [10]
Je leidt een onbezorgd leven, bent rijk, gepriviligeerd, hebt leuke en waardevolle connecties, bezoekt regelmatig de club en ander vermaak en koestert een diepe vriendschap [11]
En DAN,ja DAN, slaat het noodlot toe.
Je vader [Anthony”s vader dus] overlijdt aan de gevolgen van een bijesteek en
wat het traumatisch maakt is dat je [Anthony dus] daar zelf bij aanwezig bent,
dus je ziet je vader voor je ogen sterven [12
En weg is het zorgeloze bestaan.
Want niet alleen dompelde de dood van zijn vader Anthony in diepe rouw,
veel erger was nog, dat hij niet de kans kreeg om te rouwen, want nu was de
positie van de oudste zoon niet meer een ”convenient privilege” [13], maar immense een last, die op zijn schouders ging drukken [14], omdat hij nu, als
oudste zoon die vrijwel alles had geerfd, het hele landgoed of landgoederen
moest bestieren, het wettelijke Hoofd werd van de Familie-wat inhield
de wettelijke verantwoordelijkheid voor zijn [zeven] jongere broers en zusters. [15]
Voor zijn moeder, die als ”’sole femme” een vrij onafhankelijke positie
innam [16] was hij wettelijk niet verantwoordelijk.
Wel was de moeder in Regency Tijd vaak financieel afhankelijk van haar zoon [vooral als haar weduwenpensioen slecht geregeld was in de huwelijkse voorwaarden],  had zij geen enkele zeggenschap over zijn beheer van landgoed en familiekapitaal en de zoon bepaalde ook of zij in het ”hoofdhuis” mocht blijven wonen of dat zij naar het dower house moest vertrekken [16]
Hierdoor ontstond een afhankelijkheidsrelatie, die weer kon leiden
tot verstoorde verhoudingen.
EN DIE VERSTOORDE VERHOUDINGEN KWAMEN ER!
VERSTOORDE VERHOUDINGEN EN TOENEMENDE SPANNINGEN TUSSEN ANTHONY EN ZIJN MOEDER LADY VIOLET
De toenemende spanningen tussen Anthony en zijn moeder Lady Violet waren hoogst zorgwekkend.
Nu was moeder Violet ook getraumatiseerd, want ook zij was getuige geweest
van het overlijden van haar man, met wie zij een zeer gelukkig huwelijk had gehad,
dus begrijpelijkerwijs kon zij na zijn dood lange tijd niet functionneren, waarbij zij
ook nog een zware bevalling had van haar jongste dochter Hyacinth, die dus
na de dood van haar vader werd geboren. [17]
Hoezeer begrijpelijk ook, daardoor kwam naast het beheer van de landgoederen
en het familiekapitaal, het runnen van de dagelijkse gang van zaken en de
opvoeding van de andere 7 kinderen, voor rekening
van de 18 jarige Anthony. [18]
Een dergelijke belasting wordt ook wel Parentificatie genoemd. [19]
Was dat op zich al [onredelijk] zwaar, nog zwaarder was het feit -en daaraan kon Violet WEL wat aan doen- dat Violet, in plaats van waardering te tonen voor
de grote last op de schouders van haar 18 jarige zoon, die normaal zou hebben gefeest, naar de club was gegaan met vrienden en plezier had gemaakt, voortdurend zet te klagen, Anthony overdreven streng en onredelijk op zijn ”fouten” wees, en er ook nog eens fijntjes op wees, dat zijn overleden vader
het zo veel beter zou hebben gedaan [20] [ja, nogal logisch, die had jaren ervaring!]
Dat Anthony ook zijn persoonlijke noden en behoeften had, daarvoor had Violet geen oog.
Nu was dat geen bewuste emotionele verwaarlozing [hoewel de effecten hetzelfde waren], omdat Violet, die overigens veel en diep van Anthony hield, zelf nog
diep in haar rouwproces zat.
En daarbij schuurde het natuurlijk ook dat zij, als weduwe, geen enkele juridische macht kon laten gelden en geen enkele zeggenschap had over het beheer van de landgoederen en het familiekapitaal [21], wat geheel lag in de handen van haar 18 jarige zoon, die geen enkele ervaring had in de harde Regency Ton wereld, waarin je zelfs
voor een kleine misstap keihard kon worden afgerekend. [22]
En met dat Vader Trauma [getuige van de dood van zijn vader] en de zware belasting door zijn nieuwe positie EN de onverwerkte rouw van zijn moeder
[waar zij niets aan kon doen], En haar harde opstelling [waar zij wel wat aan kon doen], was emotioneel nog het pijnlijkst, dat Violet voor haar 7 andere kinderen WEL tederheid toonde, met name jegens oudste dochter Daphne [23], terwijk
Anthony voornamelijk moederlijk misprijzen, emotionele verwaarlozing en
emotionele chantage [je vader zou het zoveel beter doen] naar zijn hoofd kreeg geslingerd……[24]
EMOTIONELE BREUK/SIENA ROSSO
De Relatie tussen moeder en zoon bereikte een absoluut dieptepunt [dat zich nooit meer volledig zou herstellen [25], toen Anthony verliefd werd op
operazangeres Siena Rosso [26], met wie hij een langdurige Liefdes affaire kreeg. [27]
Dat Violet daar op zijn zachtst gezegd niet blij mee was, omdat operazangeressen
in Regency Tijd werden gezien als ”immoreel” en een eventueel huwelijk
tussen een aristocraat en een operazangeres direct tot de ”sociale dood” zou leiden [28] was begrijpelijk.
NIET begrijpelijk en absoluut onvergeeflijk was de manier waarop zij ermee omging, door Siena te reduceren tot ”a certain soprano” [29] waarvoor je je zou moeten schamen [30] en gemener nog, later helemaal niet meer naar haar verwijzen, maar of te verwijzen naar de manier waarop Anthony zijn plichten zou
verzaken of hem emotioneel te chanteren met zijn overleden vader [31]
Dit grijpt heel diep bij Anthony, wiens liefde voor Siena diep zit [32]
en het is onbegrijpelijk dat Violet niet lijkt te beseffen, dat zij met het neerhalen van Siena, haar zoon diep raakt [33] [hoewel de nerveuze lading in haar stem bij het uitspreken van ”a certain soprano” een ogenblik angst verraadt voor de kloof die tussen haar zoon en haar aan het ontstaan is….[33AA]
En DAT het hem diep raakte, liet hij niet direct zien in die confrontatie met zijn moeder [waarschijnlijk uit zelfbescherming] [33A], maar was duidelijk te zien aan zijn gezicht vol pijn, toen hij tegen Siena sprak over ”.in a place where you and I might be accepted where not the shame nor
incriminations that this society grants us”[33B]
Voor Violet mag Siena dan een ”schandaal” zijn, voor Anthony is zij zijn hele wereld [34]
En het meest trieste is nog, dat Violet, die echt en veel van Anthony houdt, niet beseft., dat zij met haar destructieve en manipulerende gedrag een kille en emotionele afstand tussen haar en Anthony creert, die ook na haar selectieve excuses in Seizoen 2 nooit meer volledig zal herstellen, ook niet nadat hij
hernieuwd geluk heeft gevonden bij Kate Sharma [35]
OKAY, VIOLET’S DRUK WAS IMMENS [36]
En door haar Druk maakte hij aanvankelijk de relatie uit [37], maar iedere keer ging hij weer naar haar terug [38] , want de liefde was te sterk om weg te blijven.
Een Voorbeeld daarvan is een scene, waarbij zij tijdelijk uit elkaar zijn en
Anthony een bokswedstrijd bezoekt waar Siena aanwezig is met een andere man.
In het lawaai en tumult van die bokswedstrijd ziet Anthony Siena en heeft voor niets anders meer oog. Na een tijdje ziet zij hem ook en ze lijken als
magneten naar elkaar toe te worden getrokken.
Een scene later staan ze onder dat boxplatform en bedrijven de liefde…..
Zie onder noot 39 de gepassioneerde en ook wanhopige scene, die onderstreept, dat hun liefdesrelatie alleen mogelijk was achter gesloten deuren of ”op stiekeme plekken”  [40]
HET DUEL
WAT ERAAN VOORAFGING
En hier komt dat Duel Drama aan
Want hoe pijnlijk moet het niet zijn om je beste vriend [want Anthony en Simon waren boezemvrienden] [41] uit te dagen voor een Duel op Leven
en Dood, dat ze geen van beiden wilden, maar hierin had Anthony geen keuze, omdat het ging om de Eer van zijn zuster…..[42]
VANWEGE TRAUMA’S EN DRUK TEGEN EEN NERVOUS BREAK DOWN AAN, NOG GETRIGGERD DOOR GEDWONGEN ”DUBBELLEVEN”
Nu kwam alles in Anthony’s emotionele Staat samen:
Het Trauma over zijn vader [hem hebben zien sterven], de zware Last
van het runnen van de landgoederen en het Familiekapitaal, een moeder die je emotioneel verwaarloost, moreel chanteert met je overleden vader en probeert je Liefdesaffaire te saboteren en dan ook nog een Duel,,,,,,,
genoeg om te leiden tot een ”nervous breakdown”
Nu, in moderne terminologie zat Anthony dus heel dicht tegen een
”nervous breakdown” aan….[43]
Maar nervous breakdown of niet [44], van een Edelman in Regency Tijd werd verwacht dat hij zijn emotionele gevoelens verborg [45], want ”the show must go on” ……..
En dat alles ook nog eens onder de paraplu van zijn gedwongen ”dubbelleven” [Enerzijds het half verborgen samenzijn met de vrouw van wie hij hield [46], wat een gepassioneerd en fel sex leven triggerde [47],  anderszijds zijn ”openbare leven” met zijn Familie, contacten en aristocratische netwerk]
Dit alles genoeg om zich als Lezer of Kijker naar Bridgerton af te vragen:
HOE LUKTE HET ANTHONY BRIDGERTON OM NOG ‘S MORGENS ZIJN BED UIT TE KOMEN, MET AL DIE EMOTIONELE SPANNINGEN
EN STRESS?
SIENA ALS VEILIGE HAVEN
Hoe ingewikkeld en paradoxaal dat ook mag klinken [vanwege de stress van dat dubbelleven]
Ik denk dat wat Anthony op de been hield en zijn Veilige Haven was, Siena was.
Kijk lezers, Siena was de enige persoon [behalve misschien zijn beste vriend Simon, maar tegen hem ging hij nu juist duelleren…] bij wie Anthony zich in die Dagen van Verwarring veilig voelde.
Zij was een felle en gepassioneerde vrouw, wat hun liefdesuitingen, ook
door het pure overlevingskarakter [hoe lang en wanneer konden ze weer
samenzijn], heftig maakte [48], maar ook heel warm en liefhebbend.
Bij haar hoefde hij even geen Viscount te zijn, strak in het pak, gebonden aan alle Ton regels, met een extreem veeleisende moeder [ook al besefte zij, eerlijk is eerlijk, niet altijd hoe zwaar het voor haar zoon was], met landgoederen, die moesten worden gerund, met zusters die moesten
worden uitgehuwelijkt] [49]
Zij was zijn Bron van Warmte, zijn Haardvuur, tegen de kille muren van eisen en verplichtingen van Aubrey Hall…..
Niet alleen hield hij diep van haar [50], hij kwam ook bij haar tot
rust en zij beschermde hem even tegen de druk van de buitenwereld.
Zij was misschien wel de enige, die niet constant aan hem trok, constant eisen aan hem stelde……[50A]
In haar armen kwam hij even tot rust……
VOORAFGAANDE AAN HET DUEL
DE LAATSTE AVOND
EN:
Een Diep Bewijs van zijn Liefde was wel de Plaats waar hij aan de vooravond van het Duel doorbracht
Bij Siena, die, nogmaals, voor hem bij alle op hem geladen stress [51] zijn Warme en Veilige Haven was.
Is ze Heftig?
JA
Op het Rauwe af?  [52]
JA,  [ik kan me ze vechtend over de grond zien rollen [52A]
Maar ze is wel zijn Wereld, zijn Warmte, zijn Haardvuur
HAAR Plek is de Plek  waar hij geen krampachtige toneeltjes hoefde op te voeren, maar zichzelf kon zijn, met losgeknoopte jasjes, een rommelig, maar warm bed.
Een slordig neergesmeten glas whisky.
Een Man
Geen Viscount
ALS DE VOLGENDE DAG JE LAATSTE MORGEN ZOU ZIJN……
En stel je voor:
Je gaat misschien de volgende dag dood en het is misschien je laatste
Avond op deze Aarde
Maar je brengt die niet met je Familie door
Je bent niet bezig met het maken van je testament [53A]
Je neemt geen Afscheid van een moeder, die misschien veeleisend
en destructief is, maar [53] toch je moeder is.
Je kiest in je laatste uren voor het samenzijn met een vrouw, die in je moeder’s ogen nauwelijks een mens is [54]
Dat zegt genoeg……
DE AVOND VOOR HET DUEL/HET SAMENZIJN MET SIENA
Het begint al direct geladen.
Je ziet Anthony whisky drinkend in de club en spelend met
het geerfde horloge van zijn vader.
Hij ziet dat het bijna twaalf uur is, zet zijn glas abrupt neer en vertrekt [55]
De intense opgewonden, emotionele Staat waarin hij zich bevindt [56]
is direct te zien in de volgende scene.
Hij staat op de deur van een appartement te bonzen, alsof zijn leven ervan afhangt [57] en de deur gaat met een ruk open, waardoor hij bijna naar
binnen tuimelt.
Het is Siena, die hem op felle, emotionele toon toebijt:
”I believe you strayed far from home tonight”‘
[”Ik geloof, dat u vanavond ver van huis bent!”]
Zij wil de deur weer dichtsmijten [kennelijk was het weer tijdelijk ”uit” geweest tussen hen”]
Maar Anthony houdt haar tegen
en begint op een super gejaagde, met adrenaline geladen, emotionele toon te praten:
””Siena alsjeblieft…….we kunnen niet samen zijn…..ik weet nu, dat dat niet zal
worden toegestaan……maar als we nou…..als we nou in een andere situatie
waren…..op een plek waar jij en ik geaccepteerd zouden worden…..waar we
niet over ons heen zouden krijgen dat onze relatie schandelijk zou zijn en iets
om je voor te schamen, zoals in deze samenleving ….[58]
Zou je mij dan willen hebben……!”
Ze staat bij de deuropening, luistert tegen wil en dank met een vermoeid, maar intens verdrietig gezicht en antwoordt hem, dat het maar dromen zijn en hij haar van haar slaap berooft en gaat naar binnen, maar deze keer zonder hem buiten te sluiten.
Wanneer hij haar vertelt over het aanstaande Duel, draait ze
zich, geschrokken, met een ruk om en kijkt hem intens aan:
””Een Erekwestie?”
Dan vervolgt Anthony, intens, heftig door de gierende adrenaline:
””Als ik met zonsopgang nog leef, dan ben ik vrij.
Vrij van deze samenleving, vrij van al die regels, die ons uit elkaar
houden, we kunnen samen weggaan en dit alles achter ons laten
Siena…….” [59]
Ze kijken elkaar fel, intens en wanhopig aan, maar als Siena niet reageert
op Anthony’s woorden, stamelt hij excuses waarbij hij geemotioneerd stamelt, dat hij haar geduld ”voor de laatste keer heeft getart en loopt weg
Siena staat even verstard, schiet dan naar voren, grijpt hem heftig vast, trekt hem naar zich toe en zij vinden elkaar in een heftige, wanhopige omhelzing, waarbij zij zijn gezicht vastgrijpt en zijn kleren openscheurt
en hij haar optilt.
Zich realiserend dat zij in het Vuur van hun wanhopige Passie haar deur nog heeft openstaan, smijt zij deze met een klap dicht, waarna hij haar optilt en haar meevoert, ver van nieuwsgierige ogen…..[60]
Na de Nacht samen te hebben doorgebracht, staat hij voor Dageraad op,
buigt zich voorzichtig over de slapende Siena heen, geeft haar een kus
en vertrekt…..
ADRENALINE!
BIJ DAGERAAD
HET DUEL EN ANTHONY’S LAATSTE GEDACHTEN
EN NU…..THE BIG QUESTION LEZERS…..
Voor WIE waren nu Anthony’s laatste Gedachten?
DIT IS WAT ER GEBEURDE:
Bij Dageraad arriveren Anthony en zijn broer Benedict, die zijn secondant bij het duel is [61] op het Duelleerveld.
Kort daarna arriveren Simon Basset en zijn goede vriend Will Mondrich, die zijn secondant is [62], eveneens. [63A]
EN DAN, vlak voordat dat Duel zal beginnen, trekt Anthony Benedict opzij
en vraagt hem heel dringend en gejaagd, voor financieel voor Siena te zorgen, als hij mocht sterven [in feite vertelt hij Benedict, dat er in de
bovenste lade van zijn bureau een brief ligt met de naam van een dame, voor wie financieel gezorgd moet worden en letterlijk zegt hij ”Ensure she is provided for”] [Verzeker mij, dat je voor haar zal zorgen] [63]
Benedict belooft dat, maar dat is Anthony nog niet genoeg:
Hij wil dat Benedict dit ZWEERT
Letterlijk zegt hij ”SWEAR IT!” [64]
En je ZIET ook de Emotie bij Benedict, als hij het zweert…..[65]
En daarmee Lezers, hebben jullie dan het Antwoord op de Vraag, voor wie Anthony Bridgerton’s Laatste Gedachten waren en daarmee ook het ultieme bewijs voor zijn diepe en echte Liefde voor Siena! [66]
Want aan wie denk je in misschien wel de laatste minuten van je leven?
JUIST
Aan Datgene, dat je het dierbaarst is op deze Aarde [67]
Zo ook Anthony Bridgerton
Op het laatst dacht niet aan het Familie Beheer van de Landgoederen
Niet aan zijn broers en zusters
Zelfs geen gedachte aan zijn Moeder, die Benedict moest overbrengen, terwijl hij toch wist [of in ieder geval kon weten], dat zijn dood zijn moeder kapot zou maken….
Nee…..zijn laatste gedachten waren voor die Ene Persoon, die
hem het dierbaarst was
En dat was Siena
Voor HAAR moest gezorgd worden [68]
Dat was het Laatste Verzoek aan zijn broer……..
ASTRID ESSED
NOTEN
NOTEN 1 T/M 3
NOOT 4
NOOT 5
NOOT 6
NOOT 7
NOOT 8
NOOT 9
NOOT 10
NOOT 11
NOOT 12
NOOT 13
NOTEN 14 T/M 16
NOTEN 17 T/M 19
NOTEN 20 T/M 22
NOTEN 23 EN 24
NOTEN 25 T/M 27
NOOT 28
NOOT 29
NOOT 30
NOOT 31
NOOT 32
NOOT 33
NOOT 33AA
NOOT 33A
NOOT 33B
NOOT 34
NOOT 35
NOOT 36
NOTEN 37 EN 38
NOOT 39
NOOT 40
NOTEN 41 EN 42
NOOT 43
NOTEN 44 EN 45
NOOT 46
NOOT 47
NOOT 48
NOTEN 49 EN 50
NOOT 50A
NOOT 51
NOOT 52
NOOT 52A
NOOT 53A
NOOT 53
NOOT 54
NOTEN 55 EN 56
NOOT 57
NOOT 58
NOTEN 59 EN 60
NOOT 61
NOOT 62
NOOT 63A
NOOT 63
NOOT 64
NOOT 65
NOTEN 66 EN 67
NOOT 68

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mei 22, 2026 · 9:11 pm

Bridgerton/Violet’s Dehumanization of Siena Rosso/”A Certain Soprano”

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ANTHONY AND SIENNA
BRIDGERTON/VIOLET’S DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA ROSSO/”A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
”YOUR NAME IS YOUR PASSPORT TO THE WORLD”
”BUT YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW….
To the outside World [and to her Fans] Violet may appear as a 
”succesful wife and mother” and it might have seemed as if she
got away with everything, but Violet herself knows better.
She may have ”created” a dutiful eldest son, but by her
sabotage of his Love Affair with the woman who once was his whole World
she lost what she cherishes most in the world:
The Warm Love and Trust of her child 
All that remains is what she hammered in him….his ”Duty….”
For a mother that is unbearable…”
HALLO FOLKS
Here she is again, with an important Post about a theme in the Bridgerton series, that is often overlooked, namely the dehumanization of opera singer Siena Rosso by Lady Violet, the mother of Siena”s lover Anthony Bridgerton. [1]
Now I wrote a lot about Violet [2], especially about her strained and complicated
relationship with her eldest son Anthony from the moment he became Head of the Family at the age of eighteen, watching his father Edmund die by a bee sting, which was a traumatic experience [3]
Violet too, watched her husband die, leading to a yearlong period of mourning grief [4]
I wrote about her unjustified harshness against Anthony, which manifested itself in
emotional neglect and coldness, emotional blackmail and unrealistic expectations [expecting that he managed the lands and the Estates as well as his deceased father, who had a lot experience, unlike his son] [5]
And what made it even worse for son Anthony was that she never showed any appreciation for all his efforts, only criticism, when things got wrong. [6]
Now on the one hand I understand her strictness, due to pressure of Regency Society [the Ton], where you could be socially excluded for a lesser mistake [7], but that’s no excuse for lack of motherly warmth and emotional neglect [8]
Mostly since Violet actually loved her son dearly [9]
But if he notices little to nothing of that love, it is of little use to him.
And of course there were a lot of issues, leading to Violet’s cold treatment
of her son [10], but that doesn’t exonerate her, especially since she DID show warmth towards her other children. [11]
The issues, leading to her coldness, were explanations, not excuses for her behavior.
SIENA ROSSO
So we’ve noticed that the relationship was already toxic and strained. [12]
HOWEVER:
The relationship reached the lowest point ever [and would never fully recover, even when, too late,  Violet offered selective excuses, but not for her sabotage of Anthony’s Love Affair] [12A], when Violet discovered about the relationship between son Anthony and the opera singer Siena Rosso.
For her this was a big threat to the Family [13], for Anthony Siena was his whole world,
since he was deeply in love with her [14]
DISCOVERY
Now on a certain moment [I don’t know how, perhaps by incriminating papers in Anthony’s desk or
a portrait of Siena he cherished or perhaps Violet hired spies to follow him, she is toxic ”protective”  enough for that…..] Violet discovered about the relationship of son
Anthony and the opera singer Siena Rosso.
And YES, she had a point about fearing social exclusion and death for the Family, esecially since Anthony was the Head of the Family [15] and was looked up to.
One ”misstep” of him could affect the whole family and a possible marriage between an aristocrat and an opera singer was a no go area inRegency Era, since opera singers were considered as ”immoral women” [16] and would directly have ruined the marriage prospects of his sisters [17]
[Not that such marriages NEVER took place, but only ”in the dark” [they kept it
secret] and when it came ”into the light” it caused a great scandal [18]]
So YES, she had some point to utter objections, but it was the WAY she did it……
VIOLET’S TOXIC WAY
CONFRONTATION AND DEHUMANIZATION
THIS IS WHAT VIOLET LITERALLY SAID TO HER SON ANTHONY
Violet: “Are you actually returning to your bachelor lodgings in the city, or is there a certain soprano you intend to visit?”
[19]
AGAIN
How she found out is her secret.
But fact is, that she confronted Anthony in hIs office and she did that on a most painful way!
With a honey sweet voice she opens her attack on Anthony:by reminding him of his responsibilities as the Head of the Household, [a recurring theme in her eternal tirades, while Anthony is doing the job as best as he can] [20], calling him ”Dear son” in a false tone.
But that’s only the beginning, because she saves the” best” for last, by suddenly asking him, whether he, upon leaving, will be returning to his ”bachelor lodgings” ”or[I quote Violet] ” or is there a certain soprano you intend to visit” [21]
But Violet wouldn’t be Violet if it stopped there….
After to have stated, that he was neglecting his duties, she noted, that he was relying on
his younger brothers to do the work he ”cannot” and she ends her tirade by asking him the devastating question of whether he is merely an older brother or ”the man in this house [22]
WHY THIS IS SO HURTFUL
Not only the dehumanization is hurtful, stripping someone of her individuality and identity [I will come to this later], but also the CONTEXT in which it happened.
WHOM VIOLET IS HURTING THE MOST?
”CERTAIN SOPRANO” AND SILENCING SIENA
.
For it is not Siena Rosso to whom Violet is speaking here, but to her own son. [23]
And whether she then knew that he loved her or not doesn’t matter:
Her son was involved with a woman, so there must be an emotional connection
[otherwise he doesn’t pay for her apartment] [24] and then it’s hurtful for him to hear his mother talking like that.
That that is less important to her-and I am putting it mildly, just show not
only how strained their relationship already was [25], but above all, that she apparently didn’t see
Siena Rosso [for of course Violet knows her name!] as a human being, a living woman with feelings, hopes and dreams [26], but merely as a scandal, as a danger to the Family.
Something her son should be ashamed of [27]
And what she didn’t seem to  realize at all was that she was playing with fire, since her behaviour
caused not only deep emotional damage to her son, but also to their relationship! [28]
Because after the ”A Certain soprano” remark, Violet started a more subtle sabotage of Siena by not mentioning her name openly, but shaming and incriminating her son on a mean, subtle way [29], which caused great damage to their relationship, because how can you fight someone, who isn’t openly hostile against your loved one [30]
ANTHONY’S REACTION TO ” A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
The most painful part is perhaps Anthony’s reaction to his mother’s ”A Certain Soprano” tirade.
Well, does he yell, act defensively, or else….
The truth is, that he doesn’t react at all, no matter how painful it must
be for him.
Instead, his reaction is a mixture of wounded pride and a failed attempt at
indifference.
He tightens physically to swallow the blow of her words [31]
And maybe she thinks she has won, but in reality, she takes a crucial step that leads to a
growing estrangement between her and her son, since she doesn’t seem to realize the pain she inflicts on him by uttering such disparaging words [32]
And that estrangement is permament.
Even  her selective excuses in Season 2 will not solve this [33]
”THE CERTAIN SOPRANO” EFFECT/STRIPPING PEOPLE OF THEIR NAMES IS INHUMANITY ITSELF”
Calling Siena ”A Certain Soprano” is not just a mean remark of a mean woman, who
is deliberately hateful, but [that’s the other side] is also worried about her son’s and Family’s Future [34], lashing out, completely overlooking [and that remains her ”crime”]
her son’s needs and emotions [35], because there are thousands of not offensive  ways to say ”I don’t want her as my daughter in law….”, without completely humiliating a human being….
If it was only some hateful, stupid remark of a dominant, possessive mother, I wouldn’t dedicate a complete article to it, especially since I’ve already given ”Lady Violent”
a piece of my mind about this [36]
NO, THIS GOES FAR DEEPER THAN SOME NARROW MINDED TON MOTHER…..[37]
HUMANITY, IDENTITY, NAMES
Your name is your identity.
That’s who you are, where you come from, who you want to be in life, by which you
can be recognized.
Your name is your passport to the World.
And stripping someone from that one thing, that guarantees your humanity and
individuality, not only gives a great feeling of insecurity, but can lead to a deep trauma [38].
It’s often used in a Powerposition about others.
In the case of Violet it is clear.
She is a powerful Matriarch from noble descent and Siena is an opera singer from a lower class position.
Than it is easy to look down on someone and giving names.
SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND DEHUMANIZATION
In systems of oppression—such as colonization, extreme class societies, or totalitarian regimes—the very first step is always stripping away a person’s name. Individuals are reduced to a number, a category, an ethnicity, or—as seen with Siena—a professional function (“soprano”). [39]
Although I try to keep it light in the context of Bridgerton, I cannot escape delving deeper
into dehumanization
BLAME LADY VIOLENT, NOT ME:
SHE DID THE DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA! [40]
And although Lady Violet did on a small scale what systems do on a
large scale [and Lady Violet is not a wicked villain, although destructive and manipulating , laced with a layer of deep love, yet doing her children, for example Anthony and later Francesca [Season 3] a lot of harm anyway] [41],
dehumanizing mechanisms work largely the same way.
De Dehumanizing Victims are denied their names, their dreams, their hopes, reduced to a ”number”, told that they are ”nothing”, their feelings are erased, they are treated like
”things”, not human beings or often ”subhumans” [[42]
You see that in slavery, colonialism, totalitarian regimes etc  [43]
Dehumanizing does not always have to involve hard methods:
Far more dangerous is the so called ”Civilized Oppressor”, because that is much harder to recognize as an oppressor, because the appearance is often friendly and polite [44]
AI says about those tactics:
”
  • The Real-World Connection: The most dangerous form of dehumanization rarely comes from overt monsters. Instead, it originates from the established elite who genuinely believe they are protecting “civilization, culture, or family legacy” (exactly like Lady Violet).” [45]
 
Indeed, Lady Violet uses the same tactics:
Under the guise of ”maternal concern” or ”good intentions” and seldom screaming [talking with a soft, polite voice and using words like ”My darling” or ”Dear son” to soften the blow] she manipulates and blackmails. [46]
DENYING THE RIGHT TO BE SEEN AS A HUMAN BEING
 
The Siena dehumanization of Lady Violet was therefore so painful,
because Violet probably didn’t realize that what she did to Siena was
the worst one human being can do to another.
The very denial for the right to be seen as a human being, with feelings, hopes, dreams, right to love and to be loved.
Right to live as a human being.
For Violet, she was just a ”phase”, a threat, a ”disease” her son had to recover from. [47]
While all Siena did was to love her son [48]
And even if Violet didn’t care about that, did she ever realize what her
hurting of Siena did with her son’s feelings?
His very soul
It was Siena of whom he thought when he cried out in
that dining room [Season 2]
”Do not lecture me on my responsibilities! I have spent every waking hour of every day since my father died fulfilling those responsibilities. I have sacrificed EVERYTHING for this family! My youth, my desires, my… my very soul has been dedicated to ensuring the survival of the Bridgerton name!”  [49]
BUT YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW….
To the outside World [and to her Fans] Violet may appear as a 
”succesfulL wife and mother” and it might have seemed as if she
got away with everything, but Violet herself knows better.
She may have ”created” a dutiful eldest son, but by her
sabotage of his Love Affair with the woman who once was his whole World
she lost what she cherishes most in the world:
The Warm Love and Trust of her child [50]
All that remains is what she hammered in him….his ”Duty….”  [51]
For a mother that is unbearable….
 
 
FINAL WORDS ABOUT DEHUMANIZATION
 
SLAVERY AND THE JACQUERIE, THE UPRISING BECAUSE THEIR NAME WAS DENIED…….
 
 
 
The very dehumanization and inhumanity of slavery, beginning with
the ”stripping of the names” [52] is widely known
But another Oppression, of the Medieval poverty stricken peasants in Europe, was a form of dehumanization too.
And you know, Readers:
Of course in the French peasants revolt, the ”Jacquerie” [53] the bad social and economic position of the peasants in feudal France played a major role in the uprising [54]
But you know what?
There was more
 
What triggered and hurt the peasants deeply was not only their desperately poor state and the way they were cruelly exploited, reduced to subhumans [55], but also the fact, THAT THEY WERE DENIED A NAME.
All peasants were called the same by the nobility, namely ”Jaques” as if they were no human individuals [56]
 
 
VIOLET’S LOSS
 
And so we come back to Violet again and her dehumanization of Siena, the woman her son loved so deeply for long, long time, when she was 
his ”hearthfire” while his mother’s house [and his mother] was cold as ice…..[57]
 
And we don’t compare
Slavery, feudalism and colonialism were major systems of oppression.
 
But by each oppression, great or small, you see the same patterns of disrespect, cruelty, inhumanity, whether it is a peasant being whipped or a ”high class” Lady, who wants an ”inferior” opera singer out of the life of her son [58]
 
But by forcing Siena out of the life of her son Anthony, leaving him
heartbroken without any comfort [59] and refusing excuses for her destructive role [60], she lost the Warmth and the Trust of her son.
By driving out Siena out of his life, she lost the loving son for good.
What remained was the ”dutiful” son she demanded in Season 1 [61]
 
And that was Violet’s real big loss.
 
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, LADY VIOLENT
 
 
ASTRID ESSED
 
NOTES
 
 
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NOTES 11 T/M 14
NOTES 15 T/M 18
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Violet’s Dehumanization of Siena Rosso/”A Certain Soprano”

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ANTHONY AND SIENNA
VIOLET’S DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA ROSSO/”A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
”YOUR NAME IS YOUR PASSPORT TO THE WORLD”
”BUT YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW….
To the outside World [and to her Fans] Violet may appear as a 
”succesful wife and mother” and it might have seemed as if she
got away with everything, but Violet herself knows better.
She may have ”created” a dutiful eldest son, but by her
sabotage of his Love Affair with the woman who once was his whole World
she lost what she cherishes most in the world:
The Warm Love and Trust of her child 
All that remains is what she hammered in him….his ”Duty….”
For a mother that is unbearable…”
HALLO FOLKS
Here she is again, with an important Post about a theme in the Bridgerton series, that is often overlooked, namely the dehumanization of opera singer Siena Rosso by Lady Violet, the mother of Siena”s lover Anthony Bridgerton. [1]
Now I wrote a lot about Violet [2], especially about her strained and complicated
relationship with her eldest son Anthony from the moment he became Head of the Family at the age of eighteen, watching his father Edmund die by a bee sting, which was a traumatic experience [3]
Violet too, watched her husband die, leading to a yearlong period of mourning grief [4]
I wrote about her unjustified harshness against Anthony, which manifested itself in
emotional neglect and coldness, emotional blackmail and unrealistic expectations [expecting that he managed the lands and the Estates as well as his deceased father, who had a lot experience, unlike his son] [5]
And what made it even worse for son Anthony was that she never showed any appreciation for all his efforts, only criticism, when things got wrong. [6]
Now on the one hand I understand her strictness, due to pressure of Regency Society [the Ton], where you could be socially excluded for a lesser mistake [7], but that’s no excuse for lack of motherly warmth and emotional neglect [8]
Mostly since Violet actually loved her son dearly [9]
But if he notices little to nothing of that love, it is of little use to him.
And of course there were a lot of issues, leading to Violet’s cold treatment
of her son [10], but that doesn’t exonerate her, especially since she DID show warmth towards her other children. [11]
The issues, leading to her coldness, were explanations, not excuses for her behavior.
SIENA ROSSO
So we’ve noticed that the relationship was already toxic and strained. [12]
HOWEVER:
The relationship reached the lowest point ever [and would never fully recover, even when, too late,  Violet offered selective excuses, but not for her sabotage of Anthony’s Love Affair] [12A], when Violet discovered about the relationship between son Anthony and the opera singer Siena Rosso.
For her this was a big threat to the Family [13], for Anthony Siena was his whole world,
since he was deeply in love with her [14]
DISCOVERY
Now on a certain moment [I don’t know how, perhaps by incriminating papers in Anthony’s desk or
a portrait of Siena he cherished or perhaps Violet hired spies to follow him, she is toxic ”protective”  enough for that…..] Violet discovered about the relationship of son
Anthony and the opera singer Siena Rosso.
And YES, she had a point about fearing social exclusion and death for the Family, esecially since Anthony was the Head of the Family [15] and was looked up to.
One ”misstep” of him could affect the whole family and a possible marriage between an aristocrat and an opera singer was a no go area inRegency Era, since opera singers were considered as ”immoral women” [16] and would directly have ruined the marriage prospects of his sisters [17]
[Not that such marriages NEVER took place, but only ”in the dark” [they kept it
secret] and when it came ”into the light” it caused a great scandal [18]]
So YES, she had some point to utter objections, but it was the WAY she did it……
VIOLET’S TOXIC WAY
CONFRONTATION AND DEHUMANIZATION
THIS IS WHAT VIOLET LITERALLY SAID TO HER SON ANTHONY
Violet: “Are you actually returning to your bachelor lodgings in the city, or is there a certain soprano you intend to visit?”
[19]
AGAIN
How she found out is her secret.
But fact is, that she confronted Anthony in hIs office and she did that on a most painful way!
With a honey sweet voice she opens her attack on Anthony:by reminding him of his responsibilities as the Head of the Household, [a recurring theme in her eternal tirades, while Anthony is doing the job as best as he can] [20], calling him ”Dear son” in a false tone.
But that’s only the beginning, because she saves the” best” for last, by suddenly asking him, whether he, upon leaving, will be returning to his ”bachelor lodgings” ”or[I quote Violet] ” or is there a certain soprano you intend to visit” [21]
But Violet wouldn’t be Violet if it stopped there….
After to have stated, that he was neglecting his duties, she noted, that he was relying on
his younger brothers to do the work he ”cannot” and she ends her tirade by asking him the devastating question of whether he is merely an older brother or ”the man in this house [22]
WHY THIS IS SO HURTFUL
Not only the dehumanization is hurtful, stripping someone of her individuality and identity [I will come to this later], but also the CONTEXT in which it happened.
WHOM VIOLET IS HURTING THE MOST?
”CERTAIN SOPRANO” AND SILENCING SIENA
.
For it is not Siena Rosso to whom Violet is speaking here, but to her own son. [23]
And whether she then knew that he loved her or not doesn’t matter:
Her son was involved with a woman, so there must be an emotional connection
[otherwise he doesn’t pay for her apartment] [24] and then it’s hurtful for him to hear his mother talking like that.
That that is less important to her-and I am putting it mildly, just show not
only how strained their relationship already was [25], but above all, that she apparently didn’t see
Siena Rosso [for of course Violet knows her name!] as a human being, a living woman with feelings, hopes and dreams [26], but merely as a scandal, as a danger to the Family.
Something her son should be ashamed of [27]
And what she didn’t seem to  realize at all was that she was playing with fire, since her behaviour
caused not only deep emotional damage to her son, but also to their relationship! [28]
Because after the ”A Certain soprano” remark, Violet started a more subtle sabotage of Siena by not mentioning her name openly, but shaming and incriminating her son on a mean, subtle way [29], which caused great damage to their relationship, because how can you fight someone, who isn’t openly hostile against your loved one [30]
ANTHONY’S REACTION TO ” A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
The most painful part is perhaps Anthony’s reaction to his mother’s ”A Certain Soprano” tirade.
Well, does he yell, act defensively, or else….
The truth is, that he doesn’t react at all, no matter how painful it must
be for him.
Instead, his reaction is a mixture of wounded pride and a failed attempt at
indifference.
He tightens physically to swallow the blow of her words [31]
And maybe she thinks she has won, but in reality, she takes a crucial step that leads to a
growing estrangement between her and her son, since she doesn’t seem to realize the pain she inflicts on him by uttering such disparaging words [32]
And that estrangement is permament.
Even  her selective excuses in Season 2 will not solve this [33]
”THE CERTAIN SOPRANO” EFFECT/STRIPPING PEOPLE OF THEIR NAMES IS INHUMANITY ITSELF”
Calling Siena ”A Certain Soprano” is not just a mean remark of a mean woman, who
is deliberately hateful, but [that’s the other side] is also worried about her son’s and Family’s Future [34], lashing out, completely overlooking [and that remains her ”crime”]
her son’s needs and emotions [35], because there are thousands of not offensive  ways to say ”I don’t want her as my daughter in law….”, without completely humiliating a human being….
If it was only some hateful, stupid remark of a dominant, possessive mother, I wouldn’t dedicate a complete article to it, especially since I’ve already given ”Lady Violent”
a piece of my mind about this [36]
NO, THIS GOES FAR DEEPER THAN SOME NARROW MINDED TON MOTHER…..[37]
HUMANITY, IDENTITY, NAMES
Your name is your identity.
That’s who you are, where you come from, who you want to be in life, by which you
can be recognized.
Your name is your passport to the World.
And stripping someone from that one thing, that guarantees your humanity and
individuality, not only gives a great feeling of insecurity, but can lead to a deep trauma [38].
It’s often used in a Powerposition about others.
In the case of Violet it is clear.
She is a powerful Matriarch from noble descent and Siena is an opera singer from a lower class position.
Than it is easy to look down on someone and giving names.
SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND DEHUMANIZATION
In systems of oppression—such as colonization, extreme class societies, or totalitarian regimes—the very first step is always stripping away a person’s name. Individuals are reduced to a number, a category, an ethnicity, or—as seen with Siena—a professional function (“soprano”). [39]
Although I try to keep it light in the context of Bridgerton, I cannot escape delving deeper
into dehumanization
BLAME LADY VIOLENT, NOT ME:
SHE DID THE DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA! [40]
And although Lady Violet did on a small scale what systems do on a
large scale [and Lady Violet is not a wicked villain, although destructive and manipulating , laced with a layer of deep love, yet doing her children, for example Anthony and later Francesca [Season 3] a lot of harm anyway] [41],
dehumanizing mechanisms work largely the same way.
De Dehumanizing Victims are denied their names, their dreams, their hopes, reduced to a ”number”, told that they are ”nothing”, their feelings are erased, they are treated like
”things”, not human beings or often ”subhumans” [[42]
You see that in slavery, colonialism, totalitarian regimes etc  [43]
Dehumanizing does not always have to involve hard methods:
Far more dangerous is the so called ”Civilized Oppressor”, because that is much harder to recognize as an oppressor, because the appearance is often friendly and polite [44]
AI says about those tactics:
”
  • The Real-World Connection: The most dangerous form of dehumanization rarely comes from overt monsters. Instead, it originates from the established elite who genuinely believe they are protecting “civilization, culture, or family legacy” (exactly like Lady Violet).” [45]
 
Indeed, Lady Violet uses the same tactics:
Under the guise of ”maternal concern” or ”good intentions” and seldom screaming [talking with a soft, polite voice and using words like ”My darling” or ”Dear son” to soften the blow] she manipulates and blackmails. [46]
DENYING THE RIGHT TO BE SEEN AS A HUMAN BEING
 
The Siena dehumanization of Lady Violet was therefore so painful,
because Violet probably didn’t realize that what she did to Siena was
the worst one human being can do to another.
The very denial for the right to be seen as a human being, with feelings, hopes, dreams, right to love and to be loved.
Right to live as a human being.
For Violet, she was just a ”phase”, a threat, a ”disease” her son had to recover from. [47]
While all Siena did was to love her son [48]
And even if Violet didn’t care about that, did she ever realize what her
hurting of Siena did with her son’s feelings?
His very soul
It was Siena of whom he thought when he cried out in
that dining room [Season 2]
”Do not lecture me on my responsibilities! I have spent every waking hour of every day since my father died fulfilling those responsibilities. I have sacrificed EVERYTHING for this family! My youth, my desires, my… my very soul has been dedicated to ensuring the survival of the Bridgerton name!”  [49]
BUT YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW….
To the outside World [and to her Fans] Violet may appear as a 
”succesfulL wife and mother” and it might have seemed as if she
got away with everything, but Violet herself knows better.
She may have ”created” a dutiful eldest son, but by her
sabotage of his Love Affair with the woman who once was his whole World
she lost what she cherishes most in the world:
The Warm Love and Trust of her child [50]
All that remains is what she hammered in him….his ”Duty….”  [51]
For a mother that is unbearable….
 
 
FINAL WORDS ABOUT DEHUMANIZATION
 
SLAVERY AND THE JACQUERIE, THE UPRISING BECAUSE THEIR NAME WAS DENIED…….
 
 
 
The very dehumanization and inhumanity of slavery, beginning with
the ”stripping of the names” [52] is widely known
But another Oppression, of the Medieval poverty stricken peasants in Europe, was a form of dehumanization too.
And you know, Readers:
Of course in the French peasants revolt, the ”Jacquerie” [53] the bad social and economic position of the peasants in feudal France played a major role in the uprising [54]
But you know what?
There was more
 
What triggered and hurt the peasants deeply was not only their desperately poor state and the way they were cruelly exploited, reduced to subhumans [55], but also the fact, THAT THEY WERE DENIED A NAME.
All peasants were called the same by the nobility, namely ”Jaques” as if they were no human individuals [56]
 
 
VIOLET’S LOSS
 
And so we come back to Violet again and her dehumanization of Siena, the woman her son loved so deeply for long, long time, when she was 
his ”hearthfire” while his mother’s house [and his mother] was cold as ice…..[57]
 
And we don’t compare
Slavery, feudalism and colonialism were major systems of oppression.
 
But by each oppression, great or small, you see the same patterns of disrespect, cruelty, inhumanity, whether it is a peasant being whipped or a ”high class” Lady, who wants an ”inferior” opera singer out of the life of her son [58]
 
But by forcing Siena out of the life of her son Anthony, leaving him
heartbroken without any comfort [59] and refusing excuses for her destructive role [60], she lost the Warmth and the Trust of her son.
By driving out Siena out of his life, she lost the loving son for good.
What remained was the ”dutiful” son she demanded in Season 1 [61]
 
And that was Violet’s real big loss.
 
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, LADY VIOLENT
 
 
ASTRID ESSED
 
NOTES
 
 
NOTES 1 T/M 10
 
 
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mei 19, 2026 · 7:49 pm

Anthony and Siena/Heartbreaking Love Scenes/In Music

Een close-up van het verbranden van hout in een open haard

 
 

For a long time, Siena was the hearth fire by which Anthony warmed himself against the cold walls of Aubrey Hall and a mother, who emotionally neglected him, though she loved him in her heart.

With her, he could be himself for a moment, with someone who saw him as a man to be loved, not as a Viscount with duties.
ANTHONY AND SIENA/HEARTBREAKING LOVE SCENES
SEE THE YOUTUBE FILM BELOW!
EXCITING! HEARTBREAKING!
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
he would be utterly despised.”
(Song of Songs 8:6–7 ESV)

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Siena as the Hearth Fire to Anthony/Love Scenes

Een close-up van het verbranden van hout in een open haard

For a long time, Siena was the hearth fire by which Anthony warmed himself against the cold walls of Aubrey Hall and a mother, who emotionally neglected him, though she loved him in her heart.

With her, he could be himself for a moment, with someone who saw him as a man to be loved, not as a Viscount with duties.
SIENA  AS THE HEARTH FIRE TO ANTHONY/LOVE SCENES

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mei 18, 2026 · 12:02 pm

Bridgerton/Siena Rosso, the First and Deep Love of Anthony Bridgerton/”A Certain Soprano”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGWUDjgX0

SIENA ROSSO/THE FIRST AND DEEP LOVE OF ANTHONY BRIDGERTON/”A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
She was passionate, loving, courageous, proud and loyal till the End 
But she couldn’t be ”his fool again” 
Heartbreaking, but she protected him and herself.
 
And it is high time for someone to speak  out loudly and
give her the Honour she truly deserves.
 
 
INTRODUCTION
[Under the Notes you’ll meet Siena……]
 
HALLO FOLKS,
 
 
This Post is dedicated to a Bridgerton character, who is often overlooked or is only seen or talked about in relation to others, not as an individual.
And I think that’s wrong, because it doesn’t do justice to the person she was, no matter what you think of her:
 
As you already could see from the title it concerns opera singer Siena Rosso, who had a long standing Love Relationship with one of the main characters in the Bridgerton series, Anthony Bridgerton the eldest son and Head of the Bridgerton Family [1A]
Although the nature of their relationship is a source of discussion among Fans and although of course everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, I think I have convincingly demonstrated, that it was real love between those two [2A]
 
 
It was a deep and passionate Love relationship [3A] 
And I dare say that Anthony Bridgerton would never forget her despite his later happiness with Kate Sharma, especially because he had to fight so hard for it and been thwarted by the very person who should have loved him unconditionally:
His mother, Lady Violet, who tried to give him the feeling [in which she did NOT succeed], that his love was something to be ashamed of [4A]
 
And yet apart from the fact that she had some social reasons for her objections [5A]
It was the inhuman WAY she did it by either dehumanizing her or silencing her.[6A],
leading to a permanent gap between her and her son Anthony, even when she offered her selective excuses in Season 2 [7A]
But I write about that another time
 
 
BACK TO SIENA
Today we give Siena her HUMANITY back
NOT SEEN AS A ”SCANDAL”, A SOURCE OF LUST OR FAR MORE CORRECTLY, LOVE, BUT AS A STRONG, INDEPENDENT WOMAN, WHO LOVED RAW BUT DEEPLY AND HAD TO MAKE A HEARTBREAKING CHOICE, BY THE INTOLERANCE AND HYPOCRISY OF THE TON AND THE WRONGLY DESIGNATED ”ADVOCATE OF LOVE, LADY VIOLET, WHO WITH HER ”BEST INTENTIONS” DESTROYED THE
VERY SOUL OF OWN HER SON [8A]
 
MEET SIENA ROSSO UNDER THE NOTES!
 
 
ASTRID ESSED
AND THIS FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
I’LL WRITE SOON ABOUT VIOLET”S DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA ROSSO
NOTES
NOTE 1A T/M 3A
NOTES 4A AND 5A
NOTE 6A
NOTE 7A
NOTE 8A
SIENA ROSSO
[[What is most striking in the Bridgerton series is, that Siena is ”suddenly there”, without
any clues about her background, where she came from, whether she had any Family.
what were her hopes and dreams in life.
Her whole background is shrouded in mysteries.
And as she came, so she left, as if she vanished into thin air….”]
”REMEMBER FOLKS, SIENA HAD A SUCCESFUL CAREER BEFORE SHE MET ANTHONY BRIDGERTON. AND THAT MADE HER ”HER OWN WOMAN” WHO COULD LOVE AND CAST ASIDE….”
While having an opinion about opera singer Siena Rosso whether there was real love between her and Anthony Bridgerton or merely ”lust” and ”escapism” [1] many Fans refuse to see her as the woman she really was.
A loving, strong and independent woman in a difficult and precarious situation.
THE PRECARIOUS POSITION OF OPERA SINGERS/FINANCIAL SECURITY
To delve deeper into the World of Siena [the Opera World] it is important that you realize,,
that apart from all romantic and sensation of the Bridgertonseries  [2] [what was a part of her world to, with as main part her Love Affair with Anthony] [3], the position of opera singers was very, as I said, precarious and complicated in Regency Era.
As was rightly noted by a commentator
”While the women of the Bridgerton family live protected lives inside a bubble of wealth and balls, Siena literally has to sing for her supper.”
And that was the main difference between Siena and the Ton girls in general: [4]
Why they lived doing nothing but embroidering, doing ”charity” and visiting balls, Siena had to work for her money, wake up early, depending for her living from her voice.
But not only that:
In order to get a position and being in the opportunity to build up
a career, operasingers were dependent of wealthy men, mostly noblemen, to give them as well the possibility to make a career as
financial protection [5]
SEXUAL PREDATORS
In Regency Era, society was highly sexualized:
Men had practically every sexual right:
A sexual affair of a Ton man was considered as normal, but when a woman had a sexual affair and it came into light, she was completely ruined. [6]
Men ”had all the rights” and took them.
That reflected on the Opera World also:
Women [here Operasingers] were considered as a sort of
”justified sexual prey”, who could be approached by any ”’gentleman”, who wanted to go backstage of the Opera as some did. [7]
So having a wealthy ”protector” prevented women to be sexually approached by any ”gentleman”, who felt the need to do so [8]
But apart from the ”wealthy protector”, those women had to be raw and able to fight physically, were they in a situation that an oversexualized gentleman wanted to approach them and the protector was not in
the neighborhood.
You can see a glimpse from that in the sex scenes between Anthony and Siena, which are very passionate, not only because of the wild and passionate magnetic between them, but also because of Siena’s need to be strong and protect herself.
You see her grabbing Anthony intensely and pushing him against a wall and tearing his clothes off, by passion and despair [because their relationship is incriminated by his mother and society] [9], but also from her raw surviving instinct [10]
And to come back to that financial security:
Not only singers were frequently expected to pay for their own elaborate stage costumes, private transportation, security, and specialized vocal training, they had to live in fashionable neighborhoods for their status.
AND the Opera work was seasonal, what means that after the Opera
Season they had no income, what urged the need of a wealthy protector [11]
ANTHONY/OATH OF BENEDICT
”IF I DIE YOU MUST ENSURE SHE IS PROVIDED FOR”
[ANTHONY TO BENEDICT BEFORE THE DUEL
ABOUT HIS OATH TO
TAKE CARE FOR SIENA]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGWUDjgX0
That”s why Anthony Bridgerton was extremely worried about Siena on the Eve of the Duel.
He knew that without his protection, Siena not only was left without income, but also unprotected and a possible sexual prey [12]
And because of his deep love for her, just before the beginning of the duel with Simon Basset, Anthony pulled his brother Benedict aside and made him swear to take care for Siena financially, when he died in the duel…..[13]
One of the most impressive and convincing proofs of his love for her, since his last thoughts before his possible death were for her and her wellbeing [14]
Were it just ”lust” he wouldn’t have cared at all.
So that’s the double standards to Opera singers in Regency Era
On the one hand they were applauded for their talents and honoured with favors by the noble gentlemen, on the other hand they were not seen as equals and not permitted to entrance in the Ton because of their ”loose morals”, without considering that they couldn’t survive without wealthy patrons [15]
But that’s one thing.
Regarding the sexuality, they were ”tolerated” as mistresses, but the moment true love came in the picture, like in the case of Anthony Bridgerton and Siena [16], it became impossible to be together or marry[16A].
Being seen together at public places, even a walk in places like Kew Gardens, was strictly forbidden [17]
Anthony, who really and deeply loved Siena, wanted to break those cruel rules and force Ton Society to accept Siena as equal, by bringing her to the Ton Ball of his sister Daphne, now Duchess of Hastings, thinking that his own powerful position as Viscount and his sister’s position as Duchess were strong enough for the acceptance of Siena. [18]
Since Siena refused, leading to the heartbreaking end of their Love Affair [19], we don’t know what would have happened, but in most cases it ended with a great social scandal, leading to possible social ostracization of the aristocrat and serious social implications for the Operasinger  [20]
They could even be stopped at the door, to prevent they even attended the ball [21], but since in this case Anthony’s sister Daphne, Duchess of Hastings held the ball it is not likely that they would be denied entrance,
but social scandal surely would have been the case [22]
The cruel attitude of Anthony’s mother Lady Violet against Siena and by proxy her own son about their Love relationship [23] was a reflection of ”the shame society granted them” to quote the very words of Anthony [24][what of course doesn’t absolve Violet from her responsibility of especially her cruelty, leading to a permanent gap between her and her son [25]
SIENA AS A STRONG WOMAN
Why Lady Violet depicts Siena as a ”scandal” or an Regency Era ”golddigger” [26] , the opposite is true!
In the Bridgerton series, sometimes Anthony breaks the relationship, but also Siena, who is tired of the fact, that she must be kept ”in the dark”
because of the Ton and Violet”s disapproval of opera singers [27]
But everything, despite of fierce resistance by mother Violet [28] it is 
Anthony, who returns to Siena.
You can see Siena’s resistance to take him back when he visits her on the Eve of the Duel [29], only to grab him vehemently and pull him into her home after he reveals the ”duel at dawn” and their possible shared future [30]
And although loving her deeply, due to his noble privileges he doesn’t always realize the financial impact for Siena.
So when there is a temporary break up between him and Siena [it is an on/of relationship due to Ton pressure and their own passionate characters, because Siena is a fierce and passionate woman [31] and Anthony is not an easy one either], he doesn’t pay her apartment [31A], forcing her to go to her friend Genevieve Delacroix, a dressmaker for the Ton Ladies [32] to live their until the storm has come to rest and she and Anthony kiss their reconciliation again.
For a woman like Siena that is a dangerous and uncertain financial position and although she loves Anthony dearly, she is forced to look out for another patron, who can help her to survive.
REGAINED LOVE/THE BOX SCENE
And that happens
She finds another ”protector”, but during a Box match show, where she is with him, Anthony is in the public too.
While everyone is watching the box game, Anthony sees Siena and has only eyes for her and at a certain moment their eyes meet and it feels like electric magnetism.
At the next scene you see them making love under the Box Platform
Watch the scene! [33]

And so was their relationship:

s.
They were vehement, passionate and fought with each other,
physically and verbally, stormed against each other and had vehement break-ups, but at the end were atrracted to each other like magnets…..
WHAT SHE WAS TO ANTHONY
For a long time, she was the hearth fire by which Anthony warmed himself against the cold walls of Aubrey Hall and a mother, who emotionally neglected him, though she loved him in her heart.

With her, he could be himself for a moment, with someone who saw him as a man to be loved, not as a Viscount with duties.
HER MOST PAINFUL DECISION/THE BREAK UP
This is said by a commentator about their painful break up
”The breakup at the end of Season 1 is often perceived as a defeat, but it is actually Siena’s most powerful moment. She is the one who realizes that Anthony can never truly protect her from societal exclusion.”
I think that”s true
Despite all social resistance against their relationship [34] Anthony still wants to fight for them.
And he thinks, that having the power of a wealthy Viscount and having a sister as a Duchess [Daphne, married  his best friend Simon Basset, who out of her great love for Simon, fought tooth and nails for her marriage, but that was in their own social class, so approved] [35], he could force the Ton to accept Siena,
So he went to her, with flowers in his hand and high hopes in his heart but she, being with another man, refused him and nearly screamed that he ”must let her go” [36]
Not out of love, but BECAUSE she loved him and with pain in her heart.
She understood what he was not willing to.
That even if his sister would accept and support him, the Ton would socially exclude him [37] and if not, Siena would bear the brunt since they would be polite to her in his presence, but mock her behind his back.
It was heartbreaking for her and him and would always leave a scar on him. [38]
And her last words to him were heartbreaking:
“Farewell, my lord. I hope you find perfection.”
SIENA AS A STRONG, PASSIONATE AND FIERCE WOMAN
Although the immense heart break, Siena did not lose.
Her great Love
YES
But not her Dignity
She loved Anthony passionately and fiercely, but she had also
the power to be realistic in a desperate situation.
She had to put her social preservation first and the securing of her financial future, seeing that the Ton would not accept their relation 
”in the Light”
Because that was the Dilemma
Anthony loved her deeply, but wanted to combine his position as a Viscount with his love for her.
And Yes, he was prepared to flee with her on the Eve of the Duel, when he had to flee the country when he had killed his best friend [39], but staying in England and continuing their relationship would be ”in the dark” and she so desperately wanted to be his wife ”in the light” and understood that that would not happen, despite their deep love for each other.
So it was not heartlessness that caused her to finish their relationship, like parts of the Bridgerton Fandom claim, but out of love, courage and self preservation.
She had to go on, with a man who could bring her into
the Light, while she so desperately wanted to be with her love.
Had their Love Life continued, than it was either ”in the dark” or was it ”in the Light” than Anthony had to go to duel each day for the offenses done to his beloved Siena.
But let’s be totally fair:
However destructive Violet’s role was, Anthony had also his own responsibility in this.
Because when all things were said and done, how much he loved Siena, at the end he had not the courage to stand up against his mother, no matter how immense her pressure and emotional blackmail, leave all things behind and flee with Siena.
So he gave ”Lady Violent” the power to ruin his life…..
 I think Siena understood  at the end.
She  HAD the courage to take that heartbreaking decision to break up their Loving Relationship.
And that was HER Power.
She was passionate, loving, courageous, proud and loyal till the End [40]
But she couldn’t be ”his fool again” [41]
Heartbreaking, but she protected him and herself.
And it is high time for someone to speak out loudly and
give her the Honour she truly deserves.
ASTRID ESSED
NOTES
 
 
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· 11:54 am

Siena Rosso, the First and Deep Love of Anthony Bridgerton/”A Certain Soprano”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGWUDjgX0

SIENA ROSSO/THE FIRST AND DEEP LOVE OF ANTHONY BRIDGERTON/”A CERTAIN SOPRANO”
She was passionate, loving, courageous, proud and loyal till the End 
But she couldn’t be ”his fool again” 
Heartbreaking, but she protected him and herself.
 
And it is high time for someone to speak  out loudly and
give her the Honour she truly deserves.
 
 
INTRODUCTION
[Under the Notes you’ll meet Siena……]
 
HALLO FOLKS,
 
 
This Post is dedicated to a Bridgerton character, who is often overlooked or is only seen or talked about in relation to others, not as an individual.
And I think that’s wrong, because it doesn’t do justice to the person she was, no matter what you think of her:
 
As you already could see from the title it concerns opera singer Siena Rosso, who had a long standing Love Relationship with one of the main characters in the Bridgerton series, Anthony Bridgerton the eldest son and Head of the Bridgerton Family [1A]
Although the nature of their relationship is a source of discussion among Fans and although of course everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, I think I have convincingly demonstrated, that it was real love between those two [2A]
 
 
It was a deep and passionate Love relationship [3A] 
And I dare say that Anthony Bridgerton would never forget her despite his later happiness with Kate Sharma, especially because he had to fight so hard for it and been thwarted by the very person who should have loved him unconditionally:
His mother, Lady Violet, who tried to give him the feeling [in which she did NOT succeed], that his love was something to be ashamed of [4A]
 
And yet apart from the fact that she had some social reasons for her objections [5A]
It was the inhuman WAY she did it by either dehumanizing her or silencing her.[6A],
leading to a permanent gap between her and her son Anthony, even when she offered her selective excuses in Season 2 [7A]
But I write about that another time
 
 
BACK TO SIENA
Today we give Siena her HUMANITY back
NOT SEEN AS A ”SCANDAL”, A SOURCE OF LUST OR FAR MORE CORRECTLY, LOVE, BUT AS A STRONG, INDEPENDENT WOMAN, WHO LOVED RAW BUT DEEPLY AND HAD TO MAKE A HEARTBREAKING CHOICE, BY THE INTOLERANCE AND HYPOCRISY OF THE TON AND THE WRONGLY DESIGNATED ”ADVOCATE OF LOVE, LADY VIOLET, WHO WITH HER ”BEST INTENTIONS” DESTROYED THE
VERY SOUL OF OWN HER SON [8A]
 
MEET SIENA ROSSO UNDER THE NOTES!
 
 
ASTRID ESSED
AND THIS FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
I’LL WRITE SOON ABOUT VIOLET”S DEHUMANIZATION OF SIENA ROSSO
NOTES
NOTE 1A T/M 3A
NOTES 4A AND 5A
NOTE 6A
NOTE 7A
NOTE 8A
SIENA ROSSO
[[What is most striking in the Bridgerton series is, that Siena is ”suddenly there”, without
any clues about her background, where she came from, whether she had any Family.
what were her hopes and dreams in life.
Her whole background is shrouded in mysteries.
And as she came, so she left, as if she vanished into thin air….”]
”REMEMBER FOLKS, SIENA HAD A SUCCESFUL CAREER BEFORE SHE MET ANTHONY BRIDGERTON. AND THAT MADE HER ”HER OWN WOMAN” WHO COULD LOVE AND CAST ASIDE….”
While having an opinion about opera singer Siena Rosso whether there was real love between her and Anthony Bridgerton or merely ”lust” and ”escapism” [1] many Fans refuse to see her as the woman she really was.
A loving, strong and independent woman in a difficult and precarious situation.
THE PRECARIOUS POSITION OF OPERA SINGERS/FINANCIAL SECURITY
To delve deeper into the World of Siena [the Opera World] it is important that you realize,,
that apart from all romantic and sensation of the Bridgertonseries  [2] [what was a part of her world to, with as main part her Love Affair with Anthony] [3], the position of opera singers was very, as I said, precarious and complicated in Regency Era.
As was rightly noted by a commentator
”While the women of the Bridgerton family live protected lives inside a bubble of wealth and balls, Siena literally has to sing for her supper.”
And that was the main difference between Siena and the Ton girls in general: [4]
Why they lived doing nothing but embroidering, doing ”charity” and visiting balls, Siena had to work for her money, wake up early, depending for her living from her voice.
But not only that:
In order to get a position and being in the opportunity to build up
a career, operasingers were dependent of wealthy men, mostly noblemen, to give them as well the possibility to make a career as
financial protection [5]
SEXUAL PREDATORS
In Regency Era, society was highly sexualized:
Men had practically every sexual right:
A sexual affair of a Ton man was considered as normal, but when a woman had a sexual affair and it came into light, she was completely ruined. [6]
Men ”had all the rights” and took them.
 
That reflected on the Opera World also:
 
Women [here Operasingers] were considered as a sort of
”justified sexual prey”, who could be approached by any ”’gentleman”, who wanted to go backstage of the Opera as some did. [7]
So having a wealthy ”protector” prevented women to be sexually approached by any ”gentleman”, who felt the need to do so [8]
 
But apart from the ”wealthy protector”, those women had to be raw and able to fight physically, were they in a situation that an oversexualized gentleman wanted to approach them and the protector was not in
the neighborhood.
You can see a glimpse from that in the sex scenes between Anthony and Siena, which are very passionate, not only because of the wild and passionate magnetic between them, but also because of Siena’s need to be strong and protect herself.
You see her grabbing Anthony intensely and pushing him against a wall and tearing his clothes off, by passion and despair [because their relationship is incriminated by his mother and society] [9], but also from her raw surviving instinct [10]
 
And to come back to that financial security:
Not only singers were frequently expected to pay for their own elaborate stage costumes, private transportation, security, and specialized vocal training, they had to live in fashionable neighborhoods for their status.
AND the Opera work was seasonal, what means that after the Opera
Season they had no income, what urged the need of a wealthy protector [11]
ANTHONY/OATH OF BENEDICT
 
 
”IF I DIE YOU MUST ENSURE SHE IS PROVIDED FOR”
[ANTHONY TO BENEDICT BEFORE THE DUEL
ABOUT HIS OATH TO
TAKE CARE FOR SIENA]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGWUDjgX0
 
That”s why Anthony Bridgerton was extremely worried about Siena on the Eve of the Duel.
He knew that without his protection, Siena not only was left without income, but also unprotected and a possible sexual prey [12]
And because of his deep love for her, just before the beginning of the duel with Simon Basset, Anthony pulled his brother Benedict aside and made him swear to take care for Siena financially, when he died in the duel…..[13]
One of the most impressive and convincing proofs of his love for her, since his last thoughts before his possible death were for her and her wellbeing [14]
Were it just ”lust” he wouldn’t have cared at all.
 
So that’s the double standards to Opera singers in Regency Era
On the one hand they were applauded for their talents and honoured with favors by the noble gentlemen, on the other hand they were not seen as equals and not permitted to entrance in the Ton because of their ”loose morals”, without considering that they couldn’t survive without wealthy patrons [15]
 
But that’s one thing.
Regarding the sexuality, they were ”tolerated” as mistresses, but the moment true love came in the picture, like in the case of Anthony Bridgerton and Siena [16], it became impossible to be together or marry[16A].
Being seen together at public places, even a walk in places like Kew Gardens, was strictly forbidden [17]
Anthony, who really and deeply loved Siena, wanted to break those cruel rules and force Ton Society to accept Siena as equal, by bringing her to the Ton Ball of his sister Daphne, now Duchess of Hastings, thinking that his own powerful position as Viscount and his sister’s position as Duchess were strong enough for the acceptance of Siena. [18]
Since Siena refused, leading to the heartbreaking end of their Love Affair [19], we don’t know what would have happened, but in most cases it ended with a great social scandal, leading to possible social ostracization of the aristocrat and serious social implications for the Operasinger  [20]
 
They could even be stopped at the door, to prevent they even attended the ball [21], but since in this case Anthony’s sister Daphne, Duchess of Hastings held the ball it is not likely that they would be denied entrance,
but social scandal surely would have been the case [22]
 
The cruel attitude of Anthony’s mother Lady Violet against Siena and by proxy her own son about their Love relationship [23] was a reflection of ”the shame society granted them” to quote the very words of Anthony [24][what of course doesn’t absolve Violet from her responsibility of especially her cruelty, leading to a permanent gap between her and her son [25]
 
 
SIENA AS A STRONG WOMAN
 
Why Lady Violet depicts Siena as a ”scandal” or an Regency Era ”golddigger” [26] , the opposite is true!
In the Bridgerton series, sometimes Anthony breaks the relationship, but also Siena, who is tired of the fact, that she must be kept ”in the dark”
because of the Ton and Violet”s disapproval of opera singers [27]
But everything, despite of fierce resistance by mother Violet [28] it is 
Anthony, who returns to Siena.
You can see Siena’s resistance to take him back when he visits her on the Eve of the Duel [29], only to grab him vehemently and pull him into her home after he reveals the ”duel at dawn” and their possible shared future [30]
And although loving her deeply, due to his noble privileges he doesn’t always realize the financial impact for Siena.
So when there is a temporary break up between him and Siena [it is an on/of relationship due to Ton pressure and their own passionate characters, because Siena is a fierce and passionate woman [31] and Anthony is not an easy one either], he doesn’t pay her apartment [31A], forcing her to go to her friend Genevieve Delacroix, a dressmaker for the Ton Ladies [32] to live their until the storm has come to rest and she and Anthony kiss their reconciliation again.
For a woman like Siena that is a dangerous and uncertain financial position and although she loves Anthony dearly, she is forced to look out for another patron, who can help her to survive.
 
REGAINED LOVE/THE BOX SCENE
 
And that happens
She finds another ”protector”, but during a Box match show, where she is with him, Anthony is in the public too.
While everyone is watching the box game, Anthony sees Siena and has only eyes for her and at a certain moment their eyes meet and it feels like electric magnetism.
At the next scene you see them making love under the Box Platform
Watch the scene! [33]
 
And so was their relationship:
They were vehement, passionate and fought with each other,
physically and verbally, stormed against each other and had vehement break-ups, but at the end were atrracted to each other like magnets…..
WHAT SHE WAS TO ANTHONY
For a long time, she was the hearth fire by which Anthony warmed himself against the cold walls of Aubrey Hall and a mother, who emotionally neglected him, though she loved him in her heart.

With her, he could be himself for a moment, with someone who saw him as a man to be loved, not as a Viscount with duties.
 
 
HER MOST PAINFUL DECISION/THE BREAK UP
 
This is said by a commentator about their painful break up
 
”The breakup at the end of Season 1 is often perceived as a defeat, but it is actually Siena’s most powerful moment. She is the one who realizes that Anthony can never truly protect her from societal exclusion.”
I think that”s true
Despite all social resistance against their relationship [34] Anthony still wants to fight for them.
And he thinks, that having the power of a wealthy Viscount and having a sister as a Duchess [Daphne, married  his best friend Simon Basset, who out of her great love for Simon, fought tooth and nails for her marriage, but that was in their own social class, so approved] [35], he could force the Ton to accept Siena,
So he went to her, with flowers in his hand and high hopes in his heart but she, being with another man, refused him and nearly screamed that he ”must let her go” [36]
 
Not out of love, but BECAUSE she loved him and with pain in her heart.
She understood what he was not willing to.
That even if his sister would accept and support him, the Ton would socially exclude him [37] and if not, Siena would bear the brunt since they would be polite to her in his presence, but mock her behind his back.
 
It was heartbreaking for her and him and would always leave a scar on him. [38]
And her last words to him were heartbreaking:
 
“Farewell, my lord. I hope you find perfection.”
SIENA AS A STRONG, PASSIONATE AND FIERCE WOMAN
 
Although the immense heart break, Siena did not lose.
Her great Love
YES
 
But not her Dignity
She loved Anthony passionately and fiercely, but she had also
the power to be realistic in a desperate situation.
She had to put her social preservation first and the securing of her financial future, seeing that the Ton would not accept their relation 
”in the Light”
Because that was the Dilemma
 
Anthony loved her deeply, but wanted to combine his position as a Viscount with his love for her.
And Yes, he was prepared to flee with her on the Eve of the Duel, when he had to flee the country when he had killed his best friend [39], but staying in England and continuing their relationship would be ”in the dark” and she so desperately wanted to be his wife ”in the light” and understood that that would not happen, despite their deep love for each other.
 
So it was not heartlessness that caused her to finish their relationship, like parts of the Bridgerton Fandom claim, but out of love, courage and self preservation.
She had to go on, with a man who could bring her into
the Light, while she so desperately wanted to be with her love.
 
Had their Love Life continued, than it was either ”in the dark” or was it ”in the Light” than Anthony had to go to duel each day for the offenses done to his beloved Siena.
 
But let’s be totally fair:
However destructive Violet’s role was, Anthony had also his own responsibility in this.
Because when all things were said and done, how much he loved Siena, at the end he had not the courage to stand up against his mother, no matter how immense her pressure and emotional blackmail, leave all things behind and flee with Siena.
So he gave ”Lady Violent” the power to ruin his life…..
 
 I think Siena understood  at the end.
She  HAD the courage to take that heartbreaking decision to break up their Loving Relationship.
And that was HER Power.
 
She was passionate, loving, courageous, proud and loyal till the End [40]
But she couldn’t be ”his fool again” [41]
Heartbreaking, but she protected him and herself.
 
And it is high time for someone to speak out loudly and
give her the Honour she truly deserves.
 
 
ASTRID ESSED
 
NOTES
 
 
NOTES 1 AND 2
 
 
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NOTES 4 AND 5
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NOTE 40
NOTE 41

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mei 15, 2026 · 3:43 pm

Nakba Day Remembrance/It’s still on/About Demonic Zionism and Terror State Israel

Palestinian women and children driven from their homes by Israeli forces, 1948.
ETHNIC CLEANSINGS OF PALESTINIANS [1948]
ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
AFP A man comforts a wounded child after receiving treatment at a hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza (19 May 2025)AFP
Médecins Sans Frontières says at least 20 medical facilities across Gaza have been damaged, or forced partially or completely out of service, in the past week
DESTRUCTION OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
Getty Images Civil defense teams carry the body of a Palestinian following an Israeli airstrike on residential areas in central Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on May 23, 2025.Getty Images
Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis
KILLING OF THE PEOPLE OF GAZA
”THAT FORCED FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH STATE IN
PALESTINE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE ORIGINAL PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE IS THE ROOT OF THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT!”
Zionism in a nutshell
NAKBA DAY REMEMBRANCE/IT’S STILL ON/ABOUT DEMONIC ZIONISM AND TERROR STATE ISRAEL
Dear Readers,
Today it’s Nakba Day, the Day we remember the mass eviction of more than
800 000 Palestinians from their Homeland Palestineas a result of the neo colonialistic project they called ”The State of Israel”
And therefore I repost my earlier article about the Evil Results of the neo colonial project called Zionism, leading to the Terror State Israel
It”s still on and the Fight for a Free Palestine will continue!
SEE YOU IN BATTLE READERS!
ASTRID ESSED
THE ARTICLE
DEMONIC ZIONISM GIVES BIRTH TO TERROR STATE ISRAEL!/A TRAVEL
TO A DARK PAST…….
 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
…………………and in the darkness bind them
[The Ring of Power/Tolkien/Lord of the Rings]
[1A]
[1B]
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
AT THE CRADLE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL STOOD ZIONISM, NEO COLONIALISM AND……..EUROPEAN ANTI SEMITISM
This is a Story about neo colonialism [thus mentioned by Astrid Essed since it
happened in the aftermath of 19th century Western colonialism] [1]
A Story about landtheft.
A Story about flagrant violation of the fundamental right of peoples to self determination.
Oddly enough, this Horror Story [as you will read…..]  also has its Evil Roots in
another Horror, the centuries old European Antisemitism! [2]
BECAUSE:
The Jewish Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist
Movement [the political movement with as aim the foundation of
a Jewish State in Palestine, then province of the Ottoman Empire] [3] came into action because of the antisemitic Dreyfus Affair [although some modern scholars
mention, that Herzl may have exaggerated the Dreyfuss influence on his
zionism. However that’s of no importance in this article] [4]
Read all about that Dreyfus Affair, note 5
More and more Herzl became convinced of the fact, that in Europe was no
future for the Jews, that anti semitism couldn’t be defeated and that
there was only one Answer to it:
The Foundation of a Jewish State [6]
And so his Magnum Opus [7], Der Judenstaat, was born…..[8]
And in Der Judenstaat he unfolded his ideas about the foundation of
a Jewish State in Palestine, then province of the Ottoman Empire [9]
The idea was, that Palestine was the 2000 years old Homeland of the Jews. [10]
RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION
It is hard to imagine for the contemporary 21th century democratic thinking human being:
The GOTSPE [to have the intention to found a State into the country of
someone else, based on a claim of 2000 years ago!
That’s no more or less then trampling on the original Arab Palestinian
people and their right to self determination!
In fact [I wrote it before] a form of neo colonialism , a decision about
the country of someone else and the founding in that country of someone’s else, of another State by force!
AND THAT FORCED FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH STATE IN
PALESTINE WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE ORIGINAL PALESTINIAN
PEOPLE IS THE ROOT OF THE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN CONFLICT!
As long as this Historical  Injustice is not corrected by building a Palestinian
State from the rubble of the Israeli Apartheids State [11] and the Occupied
Palestinian Territories, there is no end to the Conflict!
BUT:
The Reader must understand this well:
Considering the background of 19th Century Thinking, the idea of
founding a State in the land of another People was not strange or extreme, since
colonialism and ideas of white supremacy were considered as ”normal” [12]
ZIONISM, A FATAL MOVEMENT
Theodor Herzl, frontman and leader of the modern political zionism [13],
was a busy guy.
He organized the First Zionist Congress in Basel [14], that laid a solid foundation
for the Zionist Disaster [15]
This Congress was followed by a number of zionist Congresses until
now [for the Herzl period only the first until the six are relevant, since
Herzl died in 1904] [16]
He contacted the Powers That Be in those Times to further promote
the concept of a Jewish State [17]
Among else Herzl approached the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire [18]
However:
His attempts to buy land from the Ottoman Sultan in order to bring his
”Judenstaat” closer, failed. [19]
EVIL ZIONIST MYTH/”A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE
WITHOUT A LAND”
To legitimize their ”Jewish State” ideal tghe zionist Movement
claimed that Palestine was barely. uninhabited.
So it would not be that strange, that persecuted people, in this case
the Jews, would settle in a barely inhabited country to build up a life,
free from prosecution and fear.
And so the Myth was born:
”A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND” [20]
In reality Palestine was populated since time immemoral by mostly Arab Palestinians as
other people, mixed  and living together, forming a flourishing, economical and
cultural society. [21]
The ”A Land without a people for a people without a land” Slogan was
meant to justify the foundation of a State in the country of another people!
Its also called ”Settler colonialism” [22]
THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO THE RESCUE!/THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
”His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
[23]
Reading this far it should come as no surprise to the Readers that the Zionist Movement for the realization of her [settler] colonial plans was helped by an
important and established Colonial Power in those Times, the British Empire.
Not only settler colonial zionist thinking fitted in British colonial logic [24], of course firstly the
British colonials had their own [geo] political reasons to support Zionism [25]
The Support Thing began with the socalled ”Balfour Declaration” from 1917
[during World War I], which was a Letter from Lord Arthur Balfour, British
foreign secretary, to Lord Rotschild, leader of the British Zionist Movement [26]
In that Letter Lord Balfour guaranteed Lord Balfour to promote ”the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” [27]
I quote the most important part of the Letter:
””His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object……” [28]
And thus the zionists had a powerful colonial Power on their side!
Of course this ”Balfour Letter” [Balfour Declaration indeed] was a
Monstrosity and fitted well enough in the Colonial Thinking:
Because without in the least considering the rights of the present
population [the Arab Palestines], then still ”belonging” to the Ottoman Empire, a Jewish National Home was created by Colonial Great Britian, for
Jewish people who came from Europe!
The Jewish writer Arthur Koestler wrote about the ”Balfour Declaration”
as follows:
””One Nation solemny promised to a second nation the country
of a third” [29]
I couldn’t have said it better!
THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE
The Palestine Tragedy began to unfold more and more……
After the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire, that bet on the wrong horse [30],
Palestine [that had been part of the Ottoman Empire] became British Mandatory Palestine [31]
YES:
Palestine fell into the hands of the Colonial Power, that made the
”Balfour Declaraion” deal with the zionists…….[32]
And that the British meant business, soon became clear……
For in the Preambule and article 2 of the Mandate Palestine document [under
the responsibility of the League of Nations, established in 1920] [33], was stated, that
the British Mandatary aws responsible for the establishment, in Palestine, for a
Jewish National Home.
I quote from article 2:
”The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.” [34]
So the Arab Palestinians were in big trouble from the beginning, since
with the rise of nationalist movements in the colonies or semi-colonies
[like mandate areas like Palestine and  Syria, results
of that horror Sykes Picot Agreement] [35], for Palestine the cards had already been shuffled:
By the later independence of Palestine, unlike other madate areas like Syria,
Jordan and Iraq [36] , there would not be one independent Palestine, but already ”a Jewish National Home” was included!  [37]
And all this without any approval of the original Palestinian people.
THIS WAS COLONIALISM AND SOWED THE SEEDS FOR TROUBLE IN
THE VERY FUTURE…….
JEWISH COLONIZATION
With the establishment of Palestine as ”British Mandatory Palestine” [38]
the way was prepared for the establishment of East and West European
Jews in Palestine.
With the financial means of the Jewish National Fund and wealthy zionist Jews in Europe and the United States land could be purchased from
Palestinian major landowners on behalf of Jewish settler/farmers.
Often those Palestinian landowners themselves didn’t live in Palestine,
but  in Lebanon and Syria.[39]
The Palestinian tenants, who had worked on that -purchased- land
paid a high price, since this purchase often was accompanied with their
eviction. [40]
Furthermore there was a dramatic growth of the Jewish population in
Palestine!
UN organisation UNISPAL writes:
”The Jewish population in Palestine increased from 56,000 in 1918 to about 88,000 in 1922, when the total population was officially estimated at 750,000.  By 1939, the Jewish population had increased to 445,000 out of a total population of about 1.5 million.  This dramatic increase was primarily due to the large numbers of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror.
In percentage terms, the Jewish population rose from about 10 per cent in 1919 to 17 per cent in 1929 to nearly 30 per cent in 1939! [41]
PALESTINE
THE TWENTIES OF THE CENTURY
TO THE THIRTIES AND THE ARAB REVOLT IN PALESTINE!
I wrote it before:
Because of the Balfour Declaration and with the establishment of Palestine as ”British Mandatory Palestine” [42] the seeds for Trouble in
the very future were sown….”
It was inevitable that with the spectacular increasement of the Jewish
colonization in Palestine, all with the blessing of the British authorities [43],
tensions grew between the Jewish migrants, zionists or not [not all Jewish m,igrants were zionists]  and the Arab Palestinian population grew.
The Jewish colonization, especially in the thirties continued
to increase dramatically[understandably!]  by the danger Nazi Germany formed for the Jews! [44]
In 1936, the year of the uprising against the British Mandate authorities
and the zionist settlers [45], the Jewish population in Palestine consisted
of 384,078, 28,1 percent of the total population [46]
Given the fact of this dramatic immigration increasement, the problem
of the evicted Palestinian tenants and the British favouritism of
Jewish settlement [47], it is no wonder, that Palestinian Arabs  stood up against the British Mandatory rulers ![48]
The uprising lasted from 1936 until 1939 and was violently suppressed by the
British Mandatory authorities, who used all sorts of harsh measures
like Martial Law and collective punishment. [49]
Thousands of Arab prisoners were held in administrative detentiion
in overcrowded prisons without proper sanitation. [50]
About the collective punishment:
The main form of collective punishment was destruction of property.
Sometimes even entire villages were reduced to rubble, as happened
to  Mi’ar in october 1938!
More often houses were blown.
The biggest ”destruction action” happened in Jaffa on june 1936, making
6000 people homeless……[51]
‘Villages were also frequently punished by fines and confiscation of livestock. [52]
But leave it to British colonialism to make things even worse
and read more about the Al-Bassa massacre
and moreover the description of this warcrime by an eue
witness, a British officer of the Royal Ulster Rifles!
Read and be shocked! [53]
Thus were the ways of British colonialism when it came
to suppress an uprising………
But there is more:
Therefore the reader must keep in mind one of the
main causes of the Arab revolt:
The British favouritism of the zionist settlers! [54]
So of course the zionists were the ”natural” helpers
of the British in suppressing the uprising!
The Zionist Partners in Crime of the British was the Haganah,
a Jewish paramilitary organisation, that actively supported
the British troops.
Although the British administration did not officially recognise the Haganah, the British security forces cooperated with it by forming the Jewish settlement police, Jewish Supernumerary Police and Special Night Squad.
Especially the latter [Special Night Squad] were no more or
less then death sqauds, notorious for their cruelty. [55]
Apparently the British found those zionist gangs so useful, that
they maintained, financed and armed them from this point onward until the end of the Mandate….. [56]
”Useful tools to keep the Arabs down”, they must have thought.
WHAT A PITY [But not really/HAHAHA], that those ”trusted
Zionist friends” of the British would later turn against the very
British Mandatory authorities that had financed and armed them……..[57]
But of course, that is not my Fight.
MY Fight is to defend the Palestinian right of self determination
and show how that was destroyed……..
AFTER WORLD WAR II
THE END
Now we come to the End of our Story about Zionism.
For the attentive reader knows how the Story of the
Palestinian Arab Society and the legitimate right on selfdetermination
ended in a complete disaster, following the end of the British Mandate,
the Partition of Palestine [without any saying of the Arab Palestinian people,
who of course were against], ending in the
foundation of the ”State of Israel” and the Palestinian Nakba, resulting
in the ethnic cleansings of more than 750. 000 Palestinians! [58]
Destroying everything that once was in the Palestinian Society.
BY ZIONISM AND ZIONIST INTRUDERS, WITH THE BLESSING OF BRITISH
COLONIALISM!
READ ALL ABOUT THE NAKBA IN NOTE 59!
We know what happened after 1948!
Israeli terror, occupation, Apartheid and now in Gaza….GENOCIDE! [60]
I am fed up to write about this in detail again.
You only have to watch the news and visit some trustworthy sources….
And after all the intention of this article was to explain and
point out, how a destructive neo colonialistic theory, supported by
a Western country, eventually led to Israeli ethnic cleansings, occupation,
apartheid and thus destroying the Society of Palestine and the legitimate
Right to Selfdetermination!
BUT PALESTINE WILL RISE AGAIN!
”Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,

a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!”

[61]
The Palestinian people, led by their resistance groups, will
fight the Israeli armies and win.
LONG LIVE THE LEGITIMATE FIGHT OF LIBERATION!! [62]
ASTRID ESSED
NOTES
NOTE 1A
NOTE 1B
NOTE 1
NOTE 2
NOTES 3 T/M 5
NOTE 6
NOTES 7 T/M 10
NOTE 11
NOTE 12
NOTES 13 T/M 16
NOTES 17 T/M 19
NOTE 20
NOTE 21
NOTE 22
NOTES 23 T/M 25
NOTE 26
NOTES 27 AND 28
NOTE 29
NOTE 30
NOTE 31
NOTES 32 T/M 34
NOTE 35
NOTES 36 AND 37
NOTE 38
NOTE 39
NOTE 40
NOTE 41
NOTES 42 AND 43
NOTE 44
NOTES 45 AND 46
NOTE 47
NOTE 48
NOTES 49 AND 50
NOTES 51 AND 52
NOTE 53
NOTES 54 T/M 57
NOTE 58
NOTE 59
NOTE 60
NOTE 61
NOTE 62

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Bridgerton/Astrid Essed about Violet’s toxic relationship [laced with love] with her children/Anthony and Siena/Benedict and Sophie/Francesca and John Stirling

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LADY VIOLET BRIDGERTON
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ANTHONY AND SIENA
BRIDGERTON/ASTRID ESSED ABOUT VIOLET’S TOXIC RELATION [LACED WITH LOVE] WITH HER CHILDREN/ANTHONY AND SIENA/BENEDICT AND SOPHIE/FRANCESCA AND JOHN STIRLING
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Astrid Essed is not part of the cast or crew of Bridgerton. Instead, she is a Dutch activist and publicist who writes extensive, critical analyses of the show’s characters.
Through her official website, she publishes in-depth character studies. These pieces specifically highlight the psychological and moral flaws of the elite in the Netflix hit.
Her most prominent analyses focus on the following characters:
  • Lady Violet Bridgerton: Essed fiercely criticizes the matriarch, referring to her in essays as “Lady Violent Bridgerton“. She argues that Violet emotionally manipulates and blackmails her children under the guise of “family duty.”
  • Anthony Bridgerton: She analyzes his relationship with opera singer Siena Rosso. According to Essed, Violet “dehumanizes” Siena by refusing to say her name. She also claims Anthony’s Season 1 duel stemmed from an unconscious death wish caused by the immense pressure from his mother.
  • Other Characters: She dedicates specific essay tags to other family members, including Benedict, Colin, Eloise, and Francesca Bridgerton, dissecting their dysfunctional family dynamics.
 
 
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