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             their place in everyday society or who have been rejected by it. Most of
             the time, these are powerful characters that find the will to fight the
             misfortunes of life, change the rules, create new rules, "self-define and
             self- invent" themselves[2]. In other situations, we cannot help to see the
             romantic hero as an inadaptable character of his times, someone who has
             been rejected by society and lives alone, isolated. We will however find
             most of the time that the romantic character believes "that the best path
             to faith is through individual choice, the idea that government exists to
             serve the individuals who have created it"[3].
             I have insisted on several of the characteristics of the romantic
             hero because, in many ways, Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" draws up some
             memorable romantic characters. I should probably start with an analysis of
             the main character (at least from our romantic point of view analysis),
             Hermann. From the very beginning of the short story, we see Hermann as
             being out of place in the high Russian society of the end of the 18th
             century and beginning of the 19th century. First of all, his German origin
             makes him a foreigner, even if his father was the first to come to R
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