The Master and Margarita
Questions
The most common questions about The Master and Margarita, answered from the book.
- What is the summary of The Master and Margarita?The Master and Margarita tells of the devil's visit to Moscow, where he appears as Woland, a foreign expert in black magic, and interweaves this...
- How does The Master and Margarita end?The Master and Margarita ends with forgiveness and refuge: the Master frees Pontius Pilate with a phrase, and he and Margarita set off for an eternal...
- What is the theme of The Master and Margarita?The central theme of The Master and Margarita is good and evil, put to the test in two times: in Moscow, where the devil arrives, and in Yershalaim,...
- Why is the book called The Master and Margarita?The title names the couple whose story runs through the book: the Master, a nameless writer who composed a novel about Pontius Pilate, and Margarita,...
- Who is Woland in The Master and Margarita?Woland is the devil of the novel: a foreigner who arrives in Moscow claiming to be an expert in black magic, and whom the Master, in chapter 13,...
- Who is the Master in Bulgakov's novel?The Master is the nameless writer who gives the book its title: a historian who wrote a novel about Pontius Pilate, saw the book rejected and...
- Who is Margarita in Bulgakov's novel?Margarita Nikolayevna is the woman who loves the Master and who, to have him back, agrees to become a witch and preside over Satan's ball. She is the...
- Who is Pontius Pilate in The Master and Margarita?Pontius Pilate is the procurator of Judea who judges Yeshua Ha-Notzri in the novel written by the Master: a man who concludes that the prisoner...
- Who is Yeshua Ha-Notzri in The Master and Margarita?Yeshua Ha-Notzri is the prisoner whom Pontius Pilate judges and orders executed in the Yershalaim chapters. He is the figure who enters right after...
- Who is Ivan Bezdomny in The Master and Margarita?Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyrev, who signs as Bezdomny, is the young poet who sees Berlioz die at Patriarch's Ponds, tries to tell the truth about the...
- Who are Korovyov, Behemoth, and Azazello?Korovyov, Behemoth, and Azazello are Woland's retinue in Moscow, along with the witch Hella: a chatterbox in checkered clothes with a cracked...
- What is the difference between Woland and Yeshua?Yeshua believes there are no wicked people and that all power is violence. Woland believes that good needs evil as the earth needs shadows, and he...
- What does the phrase "Manuscripts don't burn" mean?"Manuscripts don't burn" is what Woland answers the Master, in chapter 24, when he says he has burned the novel about Pilate. The phrase asserts that...
- Why does the Master receive refuge and not light?Because, according to the message Matthew Levi brings Woland in chapter 29, the Master "did not earn the light, he earned peace." The book does not...
- What happens at Satan's ball in The Master and Margarita?At Satan's ball, in chapter 23, Margarita serves as queen and receives a line of dead guests, criminals of every kind. At the end, Woland turns...