Мастер и Маргарита

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The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven

The Master and Margarita  is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise

of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.
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The novel alternates between two settings. The first is 1930s Moscow,

The novel alternates between two settings. The first is 1930s Moscow,

which is visited by Satan in the guise of "Professor“ Voland , who arrives with a retinue that includes the valet Koroviev, black cat Behemoth, hitman Azazello, and the witch Hella. The second setting is the Jerusalem of Pontius Pilate. It concerns Pontius Pilate's trial of Yeshua Ha-Nozri, his recognition of an affinity with and spiritual need for Yeshua, and his reluctant but resigned submission to Yeshua's execution.

The Plot

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Major episodes in the first part of the novel include a

Major episodes in the first part of the novel include a

satirical portrait of the Massolit and their Griboedov house; Satan's magic show at the Variety Theatre, satirizing the vanity, greed and gullibility of the new rich; and Woland and his retinue capturing the late Berlioz's apartment for their own use.
Part two of the novel introduces Margarita, the Master's mistress, who refuses to despair of her lover or his work. Then she becoming a witch with supernatural powers.

The Plot

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The Master An author who had written a novel about the

The Master
An author who had written a novel about the

meeting of Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri. Put away in a psychiatric clinic, where Bezdomny meets him. Very little is known about this character's past other than his belief that his life had no meaning until he met Margarita.

Major characters in The Master and Margarita

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Margarita The Master's lover. Trapped in a passionless marriage; devoted herself

Margarita
The Master's lover. Trapped in a passionless marriage; devoted herself to

The Master, whom she believes is dead. Does not appear until the second half of the novel, where she serves as the hostess of Satan's Grand Ball on Walpurgis Night.
The character was also inspired by Bulgakov's last two wives, the first of whom loved action and was physically daring, while the last was devoted to his work in the same way as Margarita is to the Master.

Major characters in The Master and Margarita

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Woland A "foreign professor" who is "in Moscow to present a

Woland
A "foreign professor" who is "in Moscow to present a performance

of 'black magic' and then expose its machinations". The exposure (as one could guess) never occurs, instead Woland exposes the greed and bourgeois behaviour of the spectators themselves. Satan in disguise.

Major characters in The Master and Margarita

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Ultimately, the novel deals with the interplay of good and evil,

Ultimately, the novel deals with the interplay of good and evil,

innocence and guilt, courage and cowardice, exploring such issues as the responsibility towards truth when authority would deny it, and the freedom of the spirit in an unfree world. Love and sensuality are also dominant themes in the novel.
The novel is a riot of sensual impressions, but the emptiness of sensual gratification without love is emphatically illustrated in the satirical passages.

The Master and Margarita