"But even amongs you innocents there is no lasting happiness! Inside your worn and tattered tents surge dreams of violence and distress, and as you wander through the steppe catastrophe in hiding waits, dark passions everywhere run deep, there is no refuge from the Fates."
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The gypsies do not have any morals whatsoever (as he portrays it) they are like wild animals. Not very different from civilization. I guess human nature is the same no matter where, and no matter under what conditions- imprisoned or free. The gypsies make it more apparent. Beautiful poem about a civilized person and a gypsy, and how they react to different things. She thought it was okay to cheat, but he thought it was okay to kill. The old man got mad, so maybe they have limists? Or just different limits. But isn't it all teh same in the end? In both forms of society?
I love how romantic Pushkin is- how he so marvelously portrayed society and an anarchic sort of life- and how each have flaws... They are essentially the same. Society as well as the gypsies are described does not truly have morals either. They basically live the same types of life but in complete different ways- But in the end, they both reach the same conclusion; that morality is based on society and does not exist. Morality is very limited- and stops at duty- not at love, which is endless.
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