This paper discusses the romanticism aspect to "The Queen of Spades" by Pushkin. Individualism--a belief that just as the nation is thought to be uniquely valuable, so too is the individual person. Where Neoclassicism had tended to celebrate the universal features of its characters, settings, and situations, Romanticism in literature emphasized the individual and the peculiar. One manifestation of this the weird, mysterious, and supernatural in "The Queen of Spades."
