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Submitted by demetriusx on May 9, 2005
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It is said in The Bible that God has given Man “free will.” Unfortunately for Man, The Bible does not entail exactly what “free will” is. Some speculate that there is a force called Chance. These people believe that through a serious of coincidence, luck, and their own choices, they can control their future. Others believe in a force known as Fate. With this line of thinking, everything has a goal, and those goals will be met eventually. This gives the believer a sense of inevitability and they tend to be more laid back due to the philosophy of least resistance. Least resistance is the idea of “it’s going to happen anyway, so there’s no real point in pushing back.” In Pushkin’s “Queen of Spades”, chance and fate seem to endlessly intertwine themselves to the point where there appears to be a third force somewhat dictating their actions. In some instances, the lives of the characters seem to be going in a set path (Fate). At other instances, it appears as if had this not just happened to happen at this point in time, this person’s life wouldn’t have been affected in this way (Chance). Are Fate and Chance separate forces, or puppets on the strings of another power? Chances are, they’re one in the same.
The play opens with a man, Tomsky, who “just so happens” to be telling the story of his grandmother and how she “fatefully” came upon the secret to wealth. First, looking at it from the chance perspective, had this not happened, life would have been altered for many people. Countess Anna Fedrova, Countess A-----, is the person who puts the order of chance happenings in motion. Had she not been born, had she been “damaged” in some way earlier in life, had she not married the man she did, and many other “what ifs\" and “if onlys\" could have stopped the series of events from occurring. But, “by chance”, all of these things did happen. “By chance”, a man who would be interested in learning the secret of the three winning cards was listening to...
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