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The Master and MargaritaChapter 13
“Enter the Hero”
Title sounds like a theatrical stage direction
The protagonist ("hero") is introduced after 1/3 of novel
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• 110111: Strange guest (the Master) is nonviolent
• 111, 121: Critique of Socialist Realism
• 113: Ivan still states that the devil does not existin spiteof his own experience with the numinous!(Just like Bengalsky and the other Sovietofficials we have seen.)
• 113: Universal theme: "Development from hopefulinnocence to jaded knowledge"
• 113: Faustopera: establishes context for the chapter Commentary (346)Read handout on Charles Gounod's Faust
• 114: Introduction of the Master
• 115, 118: Final words in Master's book predicted
• 116ff: Master's mysterious woman
• 116: They love without knowing each other: FATED(cf. 118)
• 119121: Soviet disapproval of religionagainCommentary about religion: points to Manichaeism (342)
manichaeism:(See Handout)
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• 120121: Master makes new friend: Aloisy MagarychAporia: what happens to Aloisy?
• 122: "...paper that has been written on does not burn easily."
• 123: Master fears his life is over
• 125: Master is arrested because of his writingaporiaCommentary (348)
• 125: Midnight (a marker of the Carnivalesque)
Consider: In what way(s) is the Master a possible analogue for Bulgakov?
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Bulgakov = Woland = Yeshua
Bulgakov = Master
Master = Faust
Woland = Mephistopheles
Bulgakov = Woland = Yeshua = Faust = Master = Mephistopheles
See handout on the biography of Mikhail Bulgakov
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Some Motifs from Chapter 13:
Books (115, 118, 121)Colors:
red (112, 115, 118, 119); yellow (115)
Commentary (349)Decapitation (123)Demonic (112, 114, 115, 119, 120, 126)Flowers:
lilac (115, 124); roses (116, 118)
Garden (115)Insanity (113, 116, 119, 121, 124)May/Spring (117, 118)Money (121)Moon (113,115, 118, 123, 125)Music (124)Polyglottism (114)Pontius Pilate (112, 113, *114, *120, 125)Religion (112, 120, 123, 125)Restaurant (115)Solitude (114, 116, 122)Storm (118, 122)Streetcar (124)Sun (117, 122)Trees/forest (115)Water (121)Window/gate (120, 125)
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