Plot summary of The Master and Margarita Top 26 Facts
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Facts : 1 The first is 1930s Moscow, where Satan appears at the Patriarch Ponds in the guise of Professor Woland, a mysterious gentleman magician of uncertain origin
Facts : 2 He arrives with a retinue that includes the grotesquely dressed valet Koroviev; the mischievous, gun-happy, fast-talking black cat Behemoth; the fanged hitman Azazello; the pale-faced Abadonna; and the witch Hella
Facts : 3 Its privileged HQ is Griboyedov s House and is made up of corrupt social climbers and their women (wives and mistresses alike), bureaucrats, profiteers, and, more generally, skeptical unbelievers in the human spirit
Facts : 4 The second setting is the Jerusalem of Pontius Pilate, described by Woland in his conversations with Berlioz and later echoed in the pages of the Master s novel
Facts : 5 This part of the novel concerns Pontius Pilate s trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri, his recognition of an affinity with, and spiritual need for, Yeshua and his reluctant but resigned submission to Yeshua s execution
Facts : 6 Part one of the novel opens with a direct confrontation between the unbelieving head of the literary bureaucracy, Berlioz, and an urbane foreign gentleman (Woland) who defends belief and reveals his prophetic powers
Facts : 7 Berlioz brushes off the prophecy of his death, only to have it come true just pages later in the novel
Facts : 8 The fulfillment of this death prophecy is witnessed by a young and enthusiastically modern poet, Ivan Ponyrev, who writes his poems under the alias Bezdomny ( homeless )
Facts : 9 His futile attempt to chase and capture the gang and warn of their evil and mysterious nature lands Ivan in a lunatic asylum
Facts : 10 There, Ivan is introduced to the Master, an embittered author, the petty-minded rejection of whose historical novel about Pontius Pilate and Christ leads him to such despair that he burns his manuscript and turns his back on the real world, including his devoted lover, Margarita
Facts : 11 Major episodes in the first part of the novel include a satirical portrait of the Massolit and their Griboyedov 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
Facts : 12 Part two of the novel introduces Margarita, the Master s mistress, who refuses to despair over her lover or his work
Facts : 13 She is invited to the Devil s midnight ball, where Woland offers her the chance to become a witch
Facts : 2 He arrives with a retinue that includes the grotesquely dressed valet Koroviev; the mischievous, gun-happy, fast-talking black cat Behemoth; the fanged hitman Azazello; the pale-faced Abadonna; and the witch Hella
Facts : 3 Its privileged HQ is Griboyedov s House and is made up of corrupt social climbers and their women (wives and mistresses alike), bureaucrats, profiteers, and, more generally, skeptical unbelievers in the human spirit
Facts : 4 The second setting is the Jerusalem of Pontius Pilate, described by Woland in his conversations with Berlioz and later echoed in the pages of the Master s novel
Facts : 5 This part of the novel concerns Pontius Pilate s trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri, his recognition of an affinity with, and spiritual need for, Yeshua and his reluctant but resigned submission to Yeshua s execution
Facts : 6 Part one of the novel opens with a direct confrontation between the unbelieving head of the literary bureaucracy, Berlioz, and an urbane foreign gentleman (Woland) who defends belief and reveals his prophetic powers
Facts : 7 Berlioz brushes off the prophecy of his death, only to have it come true just pages later in the novel
Facts : 8 The fulfillment of this death prophecy is witnessed by a young and enthusiastically modern poet, Ivan Ponyrev, who writes his poems under the alias Bezdomny ( homeless )
Facts : 9 His futile attempt to chase and capture the gang and warn of their evil and mysterious nature lands Ivan in a lunatic asylum
Facts : 10 There, Ivan is introduced to the Master, an embittered author, the petty-minded rejection of whose historical novel about Pontius Pilate and Christ leads him to such despair that he burns his manuscript and turns his back on the real world, including his devoted lover, Margarita
Facts : 11 Major episodes in the first part of the novel include a satirical portrait of the Massolit and their Griboyedov 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
Facts : 12 Part two of the novel introduces Margarita, the Master s mistress, who refuses to despair over her lover or his work
Facts : 13 She is invited to the Devil s midnight ball, where Woland offers her the chance to become a witch