Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov: two novels in one

pro and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is probably the most famous and the most unusual figment constantly created in the USSR. Bulgakov artistic totallyy investigated the theme of epic struggle of good and poisonous relating scriptural all the samets to the realities of Moscow in the mid-thirties, having demonstrated that people have non c areend in the last both thousand of years further that unless the housing problem has corrupted them1.The narrative of dominate and Margarita is pretty sophisticated, including at least three plot lines adventures of Woland and his suit in Moscow, story of Master and Margarita themselves, both taking place in Moscow, and a tale of Yeshua Ha-Nozri a m force outicant prophet before Pontius Pilate and an obvious allegory of delivery boy Christ. This publisher aims to investigate ties between modern and biblical events in the Master and Margarita and hand over how Bulgakov mateed biblical char presenters and events with his contemporari es.Bulgakovs mission in Master and Margarita was more than alter because he devoted his novel to such sempiternal topics as sack out and fear, good and evil, God and Satan. He obviously demonstrated that those topics atomic number 18 timeless, for Master is interested in the same questions as Pilate was 1900 years before. At the arrest of the novel Moscow and capital of Israel seem to be united in a metaphysical oneness, and two plots turn out to be one. Jerusalem in the case symbolizes immortal ever-being world and Moscow is the world of the earth. At that Woland acts as a figure which ties the worlds, for he was on Pontius Pilates balcony, and in the tend when he talked with Kaifa, and on the platform, only secretly, incognito2 and then visited Moscow and talked to Master. It is big(p) to believe, that Woland is a real Satan, he rather looks like exactly reference of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.The story opens by a discussion at Patriarchs Ponds and nonhing unreal fleets at the beginning, except for s strange presentiment of Berlioz. In order to continue his narration, Bulgakov inevitable to introduce the reader into fantastic multi-world reality. He accepts that the reader is so agnostic about existence of God and Satan, that Woland expects to notice an atheist in all(prenominal) window. In this scene Bulgakov puts the words into the mouths of Woland Bear in mind that rescuer did exist3. Woland says this to Berlioz, but it is Bulgakov who says to the reader bear in mind that deliverer did exist.After that Bulgakovs story of Jesus is perceived by the reader as actual, and the biblical world is easily connected with earthly world. Moreover, the existence of the miraculous reality is proved even by its fiercest enemies Berlioz and Ivanushka. The latter has blamed Jesus so desperately, his Jesus came out, well, completely alive, the once-existing Jesus, though, true, a Jesus furnished with all negative features4 . Berlioz tells Ivanushka that the rhyme has to be rewritten, but it is then rewritten not by Ivanushka but by Woland. So, concludes Bulgakov, whatever we mean about Jesus in this biography, divine reality will remain unchanged.In order to stress the biblical chapters and keep the style unified Bulgakov showed Jerusalem as a hallucination of Woland or a dream of Ivanushka or a story told by Master or read by Margarita. His tone changes from satiric or sympathetic to unimpassioned speech in the evangelical passages. In contrast, when Bulgakov turns guts to Moscow, his characters are no longer legendary and obtain everyday features. then he achieves to basic aims inseparably integrates biblical chapters into the novel and creates an illusion of parallel between the two worlds.Events are separated almost by two thousand years of time, but analogies are easy to trace. Both stories happen in May in the days before Easter, both in the mid-thirties of I and XX century AD. The weather and temporary changes are almost same. And surely the crowd is the same, whether it is a crowd which gathers to stare at Yeshuas execution or a crowd in the vaudeville house.The tale of both worlds ends with the same conclusive phrase the cruel fifth part procurator of Judea, the equestrian Pontius Pilate5, and so Bulgakov shows that the outcome of the novel is justification and apprehension of truth. When Pilate, a biblical symbol of a man who yields before evil, shrives, he enters into the work, being forgiven on the eve of Sunday. While Pilate walks with Yeshua by the moonlight beam Ivanushka stands at the beginning of this beam, symbolizing those whose choice is still not sure.The most recognizable double-character is Yeshua and Master an analogy of Christ and Bulgakov himself. Yeshua does not act as a Saviour, he is rather a creator who faces incomprehension and repudiation. like happens to Master, whose novel is welcomed by angry critics and who is lowestly symbolically e xecuted, because he is unavailing to create any more and falls into insanity. However, his novel is not lost, and subsequently it is read by Yeshua-Jesus himself, so Masters novel is a story of biblical events and at the same time a involvement between those events and our world.In contrast to all other human characters, even Margarita, Master and Yeshua are the only ones who struggle for truth and sincerity to the end. Pilate had a heart with Yeshua and hinted, that only a slight lie could save his life. Yeshua refused and became a martyr. Pilate could not overcome his fear and sentenced himself to everlasting spiritual unrest. Surprisingly, Pilates vis--vis in the modern world is Margarita, who leaves Master in a critical bite and has a feeling of guilt for long years. But at the end she is saved by Woland and Pilate is forgiven by Christ.Virtually every character in the novel has to face a choice situation and the choice he or she makes in the usual world predetermines his or her future existence in the spiritual reality. Master chooses to forget about his novel and about Margarita and so he becomes Pilates accomplice in execution of Christ. Therefore, he is not worthy of light and he never meets Jesus. Divine will is passed to him by Woland, who, in turn, receives it from Matthew Levi. Characters of the paralleled novels never meet together and their ties are limited to colloquy via messengers and joining into one at the end.As regards the other characters, their choice is rather comic, than dramatic. Berliozs uncle chooses to live in Moscow, and the only thing he is interested in when he receives a message about destruction of his nephew is to receive self-will of an apartment. Nikanor Ivanovich, chairman of the tenants association, chooses to take money from a suspicious foreigner.The crowd of women chooses to change their dress at a show arranged by cigaret and Behemoth. Their punishments are ridiculous but this does not mean that their actions will not be judged later in Ewigkeit. Fate of Berlioz is the most frightening warning. Woland appeared to be an adept of a theory which holds that it will be given to separately according to his faith.6 In the earthly life Berlioz has chosen to believe that at that place is nothing in the afterlife, and Woland has put him into nonentity in the spiritual world.The final scenes of the novel show the idea, that examples of the great masters are never lost, for manuscripts dont make out7. They become a part of eternity, and their creators obtain eternal life. So they are able to cross the border between two worlds. The fate of Bulgakovs novel is the best illustration for this thesis, for it has been published only decades after his death and immediately gained global recognition. Perhaps this was in a way a fourth plot line of the novel Bulgakovs own life became a parallel for lives of Yeshua and Master.ReferencesMikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. Penguin Books Ltd wise Ed edition, 2004. 432 pages.1 Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. Penguin Books Ltd New Ed edition, 2004. p. 1242 Ibid, p. 42 3 Ibid, p. 184 Ibid, p. 8 5 Ibid, p.380 6 Ibid, p.2757 Ibid, p.369