The Queen Of Spades Pushkin Analysis

Pushkin's "in his book " The Queen of Spades" is full of confidence, self assumed, master of his act. In my personal opinion, the story has strong romantic overtones although one could argue in favor of the story tendencies of realism brought into the story by Pushkin. It is critical to romantic work of arts and literature and no solid conclusion on the matter can be made. Pushkin undermines his interpretation by revealing in his hero a persistent ambivalence between pursuit of the old woman's secret and possession .Lizaveta is indicated as a true catalyst for Hermann's obsessive behavior , he nevertheless chooses to abandon her, both Liza and Tomskii live up to normal society expectations; although their two final positions are intentionally contrasted, they are both enjoying socially correct marriages. Pushkin draws a specific comparison between Hermann and the other characters in which Hermann’s gibbering madness is contrasted not with fantastic material wealth, rather with simple, socially correct domesticity. This drives home the point that true tragedy is not in his failure at the faro table, but in his inability to realize domestic and romantic happiness. Hermann characterizes himself as a “gambler at heart, but his appraisal is belied by his behavior; until he has learned the secret to certain success he never dares to touch a card. Tomskii, on the
The Queen of Spades is a narrative on the frustration of trying to control or predict, to impose rigid rules on, systems that cannot be predetermined. The central tragedy of Hermann’s character is his unwillingness, or inability, to submit to uncertainty, and his fatal choice to replace the potential stress of exploring a romantic relationship with the perceived security of ensured winnings in the fantasy of the