The name of the worlds in the novel The Master and Margarita. Three worlds in the novel "the master and margarita" - composition

Literature lesson in grade 11

Goals: to show the peculiarities of the compositional structure of M. Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita”; to understand the writer's intention, to notice and comprehend the roll-overs of the novel's lines, to understand moral lessons M. Bulgakov, to promote the development of interest in the personality and work of the writer.

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Literature lesson in grade 11

“Three worlds in Bulgakov's novel“ The Master and Margarita ”.

Goals: to show the peculiarities of the compositional structure of M. Bulgakov's novel “The Master and Margarita”; to understand the plan of the writer, to notice and comprehend the rolls of the lines of the novel, to understand the moral lessons of Mikhail Bulgakov, to promote the development of interest in the personality and work of the writer.

Equipment: presentation, video material.

“I am part of the power that eternally wants evil

and eternally commits good "

"Faust" by Goethe

“Why, why, where does evil come from?

If there is a God, how can there be evil?

If there is evil, how can there be God? "

M. Yu. Lermontov

1 teacher's introduction

"Manuscripts do not burn ..." - with this belief in the power of art, the writer MA Bulgakov was dying, all the main works of which were at that time unpublished in the drawers of his desk and only a quarter of a century later, one after another, they came to the reader. The novel "The Master and Margarita", which has absorbed the infinity of time and the immensity of space, is so multifaceted that it does not fit into the usual framework and schemes. It combines philosophy, fantasy, satire, politics, love; the devil and the divine are intertwined. There is hardly a person for whom all the secrets of the novel, all the riddles are solved.

The novel takes place in several worlds at once. The purpose of our lesson: to understand the purpose of each world and find the "place" of the main characters, the Master and Margarita.

Many researchers distinguish three worlds, three levels of reality in the novel. Name them.

Determine the belonging of the heroes of the novel to one of the three worlds.(Work in groups. Drawing up a table.)

The system of images in the novel by M.A. Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"

HEROIROMANA: Master, Margarita, Pontius Pilate, Yeshua, Ratslayer, Natasha, Hella, Niza. Blood-Fagot, the cat Behemoth, Azazello, Woland, Afrany, Judas, Aloisy Mogarych, Levi Matvey, Ivan Bezdomny (Ponyrev) and others.

How are these three worlds related?(The role of the connecting link is performed by Woland and his retinue. Time and space either contract or expand, or converge at one point, intersect, or lose boundaries, that is, they are both concrete and conditional.)

Many characters in the Moscow world have counterparts in the ancient world. In turn, there is a parallelism between the images of the other world and the ancient world, and partly the Moscow one; moreover, triads of images have been created. Why does a writer make such complex constructions? Let's try to figure it out.

2. Analytical conversation. Group work.

At the hour of an unusually hot sunset on the Patriarch's Ponds, our acquaintance with Moscow of the 1930s begins. And after Ivanushka, rushing through the streets, running into communal apartments, we see this world.

1 group. Moscow world - Moscow of the 30s of the 20th century.

Problematic question:Why was Berlioz so terribly punished?For being an atheist? For the fact that he is adjusting to the new government? For seducing Ivanushka Bezdomny with unbelief?Woland gets annoyed: "What is it you have, whatever you grab, there is nothing!" Berlioz gets nothing, nothingness. Receives by faith.)

For what purpose does Woland and his retinue visit Moscow? What are the objects and techniques of Bulgakov's satire?

Individual messages:

• Styopa Likhodeev (Ch. 7)
• Varenukha (ch. 10,14)
• Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy (Ch. 9)
• Bartender (ch. 18)
• Annushka (Ch. 24,27)
• Aloisy Mogarych (Ch. 24)

Output: Punishment takes on different forms, but it is always just, is done in the name of good and is deeply instructive. Punishment in the people themselves

Group 2. "Gospel" chapters - 1 AD.

What is the basis of human behavior - a coincidence of circumstances, a series of accidents, predestination or adherence to chosen ideals, ideas? Who rules human life? If life is woven of chances, is it possible to vouch for the future, to be responsible for others? Are there any unchanging moral criteria, or are they changeable and a person is driven by fear of strength and death, a thirst for power and wealth?

"In a white cloak with a bloody lining, shuffling gait early in the morning of the 14th of the spring month of Nisan, the procurator of Judea, the son of the astrologer, the horseman Pontius Pilate, came out into the covered colonnade of the palace of Herod the Great in the city of Yershalaim, which he hates."

(“Cowardice is the most serious vice,” Woland repeats (Chapter 32, scene of a night flight). Pilate says that “most of all in the world he hates his immortality and unheard of glory”)

Problematic question:How do you see the difference between the "Gospel" and "Moscow" chapters? How are Yershalaim and Moscow similar?(The two worlds are very similar, although separated by time. The two cities are described in the same way (clouds, a thunderstorm that came from the west). Different clothes, different habits, different houses, But the essence of people is the same. Tyranny, unjust judgment, denunciations, executions, enmity are common. .)

The two worlds are linked, Linked by the Master who guessed and wrote the novel,

- How is the Master like Yeshua?(They are related by truthfulness, incorruptibility, devotion to their faith, independence, the ability to empathize with the grief of others. But the master did not show the necessary stamina, did not defend his dignity. He did not fulfill his duty and turned out to be broken. That is why he burns his novel).

The two worlds are connected with each other and the force of evil that was present always and everywhere.

We enter the third world - the world of otherworldly power.

Group 3. The world of otherworldly power is eternal.

Problematic question: Main question, which interests us: "Is the unclean force in the novel evil or good?"

- With whom did Woland come to earth?

It turns out that the world is surrounded by money-seekers, bribe-takers, sycophants, swindlers, opportunists, self-interested persons. And now Bulgakov's satire ripens, grows and falls on their heads, the guides of which are aliens from the world of Darkness

But Woland relieves Pilate of the pangs of conscience, returns the Master to his novel and gives him eternal peace, helps Margarita find the Master.

In Bulgakov's work, Woland personifies the fate that punishes Berlioz, Sokov and others who violate the norms of Christian morality.... Woland does not betray, does not lie, does not sow evil. He discovers, reveals, reveals the abominable in life in order to punish it all. It is thanks to Woland that truth and honesty are being revived. This is the first devil in world literature to punish for non-observance of the commandments of Christ. We can say that Woland is an eternally existing evil, which is necessary for the existence of good. (back to epigraphs)

Let's see what happened after Woland disappeared from Moscow. The punishment is over. Rimsky returned, Varenukha ceased to be a vampire, the patients of the Stravinsky clinic were cured. This means that Woland is needed not only to punish those who did not resist the temptation. He left a warning. And the punishment is inside.

• Woland collapsed into a black hole, Pontius Pilate, released by the Master, was leaving along the moonbeam. But the Master is not with them. Where is the place for the Master and Margarita?

4 group. The Master and Margarita

Peace, promised to the Master, looks attractive after all that he has endured. But the nature of the rest is unclear; the Master did not deserve either happiness on earth or going into the world. The most serious sin of the master is the refusal to create, from the search for truth. True, having redeemed his guilt by discovering the truth, the Master deserved forgiveness and is worthy of freedom and peace. Perhaps peace is death, because the Master receives this award from the hands of Woland, the Prince of Darkness. The Master is endowed with the ability to "guess" the truth. His gift can save people from unconsciousness, from the forgotten ability to do good. But the Master, having composed a novel, could not stand the struggle for it.

Who told you that there is no real, true one in the world, eternal love? Let the liar cut off his vile tongue! Margarita is an earthly, sinful woman. She can swear, flirt, she is a woman without prejudice. Only she of the heroes does not have a double? Why?(Her image is unique. She loves selflessly, to self-sacrifice, she sells her soul to the devil, she decides to share even death with her beloved.)

How did Margarita deserve the special grace of the higher powers that rule the Universe? In the name of what does she perform the feat?Margarita, probably one of those one hundred and twenty-two Margaritas, about whom Koroviev spoke, knows what love is.

What is love?Love is the second way (after creativity) to superreality, that which can withstand the ever-existing evil. The concepts of goodness, forgiveness, responsibility, truth, harmony are also associated with love and creativity.

- Find confirmation of this in the text.

Output: Margarita values ​​the novel more than the Master. By the power of his love he saves the Master, he finds peace. Associated with the theme of creativity and the theme of Margarita true values claimed by the author of the novel: personal freedom, mercy, honesty, truth, faith, love

What is the main conclusion of the novel?Everyone will be rewarded according to their deserts. The world is built on this. God is in your souls - CONSCIENCE. She does not allow evil deeds to be done and protects from all temptations.

3. Lesson summary.

- all plans of the book are united by the problem of good and evil;
- themes: the search for truth, the theme of creativity
- all these layers and space-time spheres merge at the end of the book

The truth, which Yeshua was the bearer of, turned out to be historically unrealized, while remaining at the same time absolutely beautiful. This is the tragedy of human existence. Woland draws a disappointing conclusion about the immutability of human nature, but in the same words the idea of ​​the indestructibility of mercy in human hearts sounds.

4. Homework: essay "What would do good if evil did not exist?"

Appendix # 1

Using the questions you have been asked, prepare a coherent story. Reason your answer with quotes from the text, indicating the part and chapter, as well as your own point of view.

Group 1.

What time is in front of us? How and how do Muscovites live? What is the language of these chapters? What subtext can we find?

- In this world there are quite modern people, busy with momentary problems. What does the Master say about Berlioz? Why?

What oddities happened to Berlioz and Ivan Bezdomny?

Group 2.

How does Bulgakov portray Pilate? How does his portrait reveal Pilate's character?

How does Pilate behave at the beginning of his meeting with Yeshua and at the end of their meeting?

Remember the interrogation scene. Pilate is asking a question that does not need to be asked during interrogation. What is this question?

What is Yeshua's main belief?

Why is Pilate trying to save Yeshua from execution?

Why does Pilate approve the death sentence?

What is Pilate punished for? What is the punishment?

Group 3.

- With whom did Woland come to earth? How does the author portray him? What is the role of each of Woland's suite? Your attitude to this hero. How does it make you feel?

Whom is Woland tempting? Whom did he destroy? Whom did you punish?

- What is the reality in Moscow?

What is the role of the Devil and his retinue in the novel?

Group 4.

The master did not deserve light, he deserved peace. Is peace a punishment or a reward?

How did Margarita deserve the special grace of the higher powers that rule the Universe? In the name of what does she perform the feat?

The novel "The Master and Margarita", which M. A. Bulgakov challenged not only the Russian, but also the world tradition, the writer himself called his "sunset", the final work. It is with this novel that the name and creative credo of this outstanding artist is now identified. Despite the fact that Bulgakov's "sunset novel" is closely related to all of the writer's previous work, it is a bright and original work, testifying to the fact that the author was looking for new artistic ways to solve the problems that worried him. The novel "The Master and Margarita" is different genre originality: it can be called at the same time fantastic, and philosophical, and love-lyrical, and satirical. This also determines the unusual artistic organization of the work, in which three worlds appear before us, which, existing separately, at the same time are closely intertwined and interact with each other.

The first world is mythological, biblical, or historical. The most important, key events from the point of view of Christianity take place in it: the appearance of Christ, his dispute with Pontius Pilate about the truth and the crucifixion. In Yershalaim, the action of the "Gospel of Satan" unfolds. Bulgakov emphasizes that the events described in the traditional Gospels do not correspond to the historical truth. True events are open only to Satan, the Master and Ivan Homeless. All other sources will certainly begin to distort the truth. The parchment of Levi Matthew played a tragic role in the fate of Yeshua, because Levi understood the words of the Teacher about the destruction of the temple literally. Describing biblical events, the author of "The Master and Margarita" wanted to show that knowledge of the truth is available only to higher powers or chosen people. In the biblical plan of the novel, the most important philosophical questions are posed: about the essence of man, about good and evil, about the possibility of moral progress, about the freedom of a person to choose his own path and moral responsibility for this choice.

The second world is satirical, which describes the events of the 20-30s of the XX century. In the center of it tragic fate a talented writer - a Master who, by the power of his imagination, "guessed" the eternal truths, but was not demanded by society and persecuted by it. The writer Konstantin Simonov noted that when reading "The Master and Margarita" "people of older generations are immediately struck by the fact that the main field for Bulgakov's satirical observations was the Moscow philistine, including near-literary and near-theatrical, environment of the late 1920s, with her, as they said then, "belching of NEP" ". Satirical scenes from the life of the Moscow literary and theatrical environment are written in a language reminiscent of Bulgakov's comic works. This language is characterized by bureaucracy, colloquial expressions, detailed descriptions of the characters.

The third world of the novel is a fantasy world, the world of the lord of darkness Woland and his retinue. Fantastic events take place in this world, for example, Satan's ball - a kind of parade of human vices and deceit.

Woland and his retinue perform all kinds of miracles, the purpose of which is to show the imperfection of the human world, the spiritual baseness and emptiness of the inhabitants. Fantastic characters play a very important role in the novel. Their main activity is balancing the forces of good and evil, the implementation of a fair trial over human weaknesses and vices.

Woland, and hence the author himself, understands justice not only as mercy, but also as retribution according to the principle "to each according to faith." "Not according to reason, not according to the correctness of the choice of the mind, but according to the choice of the heart, according to faith!" Woland of each hero, the whole world weighs on the scales of human conscience, humanity and truth. "I don't believe in anything that I write!" - exclaims Riukhin, realizing his mediocrity, human emptiness, and thus pays the bills. The image of Woland turns out to be almost the most important in the system of characters: it holds together all three planes of the novel's narrative, realizes the main motive of retribution and judgment. Appearing in the very first chapter of The Master and Margarita, he goes through the entire work and goes into eternity along with the rest of the characters at the end of the book.

Each of the worlds of Bulgakov's novel has its own time scale. In the world of Yershalaim, the main action unfolds over the course of one day and is accompanied by memories of previous events and predictions of the future. Time in the Moscow world is more blurred and flows relatively smoothly, obeying the will of the narrator. In the fantasy world, time has almost stopped altogether, merged in a single instant, which symbolizes the hours of midnight at Satan's ball.

Each of the three worlds has its own heroes, who are a vivid reflection of their space and their time. So, in the other world, the meeting of the Master, Yeshua and Pilate takes place. The master writes a novel about Pontius Pilate, telling at the same time about the moral feat of Ha-Nozri, who, even in the face of painful death, remained firm in his humanistic preaching of universal kindness and free thought.

However, it cannot be said that the teachings of Yeshua or the book of the Master exist on their own. They are a kind of moral and art centers, from which the action of the whole novel is repelled and to which at the same time is directed. That is why the image of the Master, like the image of Woland, is present not only in his own world, but also penetrates into the rest. storylines narration.

It acts both in the modern and in the other world, connecting the historical world with the fantastic world. And yet the novel is dominated by satirical images.

In terms of the importance of harm to society, the image of Berlioz, chairman of the board of one of the largest Moscow literary associations and editor of a thick magazine, can be safely put in first place in the modern world.

Homeless quickly wrote a work, but it did not satisfy Berlioz, who was convinced that main thought the poem should become the idea that Christ did not exist at all. Before us appear two different, but equally harmful to society, the character. On the one hand, there is an official who causes moral and moral harm to society, turns art into custom and cripples the taste of the reader; on the other, a writer forced to engage in rigging and distortion of facts.

Here we also see a businessman from the theatrical life of Rimsky, who was more than anything in the world afraid of responsibility. Woland is called upon to restore justice, as in other cases, in the most brutal way proving to writers the reality of the existence of both Christ and Satan, exposing in the Variety not only representatives of art, but also ordinary people.

Here Woland and his retinue appear before us in all their might.

A sudden meeting with evil spirits instantly reveals the essence of all these Berlioses, Brass, Maigels, Aloisians, Mogarychs, Nikanor Ivanovichs and others. A fantastic twist allows us to see a whole gallery of unsightly characters. The session of black magic, which Woland and his assistants give in the capital's Variety, literally and figuratively "undresses" some spectators. And the case with Berlioz underlines the author's idea that “the moral law is contained within a person and should not depend on religious horror before the impending retribution, the very Last Judgment, the caustic parallel of which can be easily seen in the death of the official who headed MASSOLIT.

Thus, we see that all three worlds of the novel penetrate each other, are reflected in certain events or images, are constantly evaluated by higher powers. The author painted a picture modern world, revealed to us historical and religious facts., created a magnificent world of fantastic images and made them exist in a constant and inextricable connection. In The Master and Margarita, modernity is tested by eternal truths, and a fantastic force - Woland and his retinue, unexpectedly burst into the life of Moscow, the capital of the state, in which a gigantic social experiment is being carried out - becomes the direct conductor of this test. Bulgakov shows us the inconsistency of this experiment. In the imaginary kingdom of truth, people managed to do so much evil that, against its background, the real evil spirits seem good. With the advent of fantastic power, all value orientations are shifted: what was previously perceived as terrible appears ridiculous and ridiculous, the highest value of earthly ambitious people - power over people - turns out to be empty vanity.

The connections between the biblical chapters of the novel and the rest of the narrative lines are also striking and manifold. They consist, first of all, in the commonality of themes, phrases and motives. Roses, red, black and yellow colors, the phrase "Oh gods, gods" - all this implies temporal and spatial parallels between characters and events.

The description of Moscow in many ways reminds us of pictures of the life of Jerusalem, which is repeatedly emphasized and reinforced by the repetition of motives and structural elements, from the features of the landscape to the real movement of the heroes around the city. "Combining Moscow and Yershalaim," wrote S. Maksurov, "the author seems to be putting one city into another, the story of the events in Yershalaim takes place in Moscow, we learn about Moscow life and at the same time see Yershalaim together with Muscovites and the eyes of Muscovites ... This is resembles a Russian nesting doll, where each subsequent figure is made in the image and likeness of the previous one and at the same time contains the next one. "

The worlds in Bulgakov's novel do not exist on their own, separate from each other. They intertwine, intersect, forming an integral fabric of the narrative. Events that are two millennia apart, plots, real and fantastic, are inextricably linked, they emphasize and help to understand the immutability of human nature, the concepts of good and evil, eternal human values ​​...

The novel "The Master and Margarita" is a mystery. Every person who reads it discovers its own meaning in it. The text of the work is so full of problems that the main one is very difficult to find, I would even say, impossible.

The main difficulty is that several realities are intertwined in the novel: on the one hand, the Soviet life of Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, on the other, the city of Yershalaim, and finally, the reality of the all-powerful Woland.

The first world is Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s.

Satan came to Moscow to administer justice, rescue the Master, his masterpiece and Margarita. He sees that Moscow has turned into a kind of Great Ball: it is inhabited by traitors, informers, sycophants, bribe-takers, currency dealers. Bulgakov represented them both as individual characters and as employees of the following institutions: MASSOLIT, the Variety Theater and the Entertainment Commission. Every person has vices that Woland exposes. The workers of MASSLIT, who call themselves writers and scientists, took upon themselves a more serious sin. These people know a lot and at the same time deliberately lead people away from the search for truth, make the genius Master unhappy. For this, punishment overtakes the Griboyedov House, where MASSOLIT is located. The Moscow population does not want to believe in anything without proof, neither in God nor in the devil. In my opinion, Bulgakov hoped that someday people would realize the horror that had consumed Russia for many years, as Ivan Bezdomny realized that his poems were terrible. But this did not happen during Bulgakov's lifetime.

The second world is Yershalaim.

Yershalaim is associated with many characteristic, inherent in him and at the same time uniting with Moscow details. This is the scorching sun, narrow, tangled streets, and the relief of the area. Particularly surprising is the similarity of some elevations: Pashkov's House in Moscow and Pilate's palace, located above the roofs of city houses; Bald Mountain and Vorobyovy Gory. You can also pay attention to the fact that if in Yershalaim the hill with the crucified Yeshua is surrounded, then in Moscow with Woland leaving it. Only three days are described from the life of the city. The struggle between good and evil does not stop and cannot stop. The main character of the ancient world Yeshua is very similar to Jesus. He is also a mere mortal who remained incomprehensible. Yershalaim, invented by the Master, is a fantasy. But it is he who looks the most real in the novel.

The third world is the mystical, fantastic Woland and his retinue.

Mysticism in the novel plays a completely realistic role and can serve as an example of the contradictions of reality. The other world is headed by Woland. He is the devil, Satan, "the prince of darkness", "the spirit of evil and the lord of the shadows." The unclean force in The Master and Margarita reveals human vices before us. Here is the devil Koroviev - a drunken bum. There is also a cat Behemoth, which is very similar to a person and at times turns into a person, very similar to a cat. Here is the bully Azazello with an ugly fang. Woland personifies eternity. He is that eternally existing evil, which is necessary for the existence of good. The novel changes the traditional image of Satan: it is no longer an immoral, evil, treacherous devil-destroyer. Evil power appears in Moscow with a revision. She wonders if the townspeople have changed internally. Observing the audience in the Variety, the "professor of black magic" is inclined to think that essentially nothing has changed. Unclean power appears before us as an evil human will, being an instrument of punishment, committing intrigues at the suggestion of people. Woland seemed to me fair, objective, and his justice was manifested not only in the punishment of some heroes. Thanks to him, the Master and Margarita are reunited.

All the heroes of the novel are closely related to each other, without the existence of some it would be impossible for the existence of others, just as there can be no light without darkness. The novel "The Master and Margarita" tells about the responsibility of a person for their actions. Actions are united by one idea - the search for truth and the struggle for it. Enmity, mistrust, envy reign in the world at all times. This novel belongs to those works that must be re-read in order to understand the subtext deeper, to see new details that you might not have noticed the first time around. This happens not only because the novel touches upon many philosophical problems, but also because of the complex "three-dimensional" structure of the work.

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"... the trinity is the most general characteristic of being."

P. A. Florensky

The Master and Margarita is a satirical novel, a fantastic novel, a philosophical novel. A novel about love and creativity ... About death and immortality ... About strength and powerlessness ... What is guilt and retribution? What is power? What is fearlessness, fear, cowardice? What is the passage of time? And what is a man in time? What is this - the truth or the path to the truth?

The "three-dimensional" structure of the novel expresses Bulgakov's philosophy. The writer argued that the trinity corresponds to the truth. The spatio-temporal and ethical concept of the novel is based on the trinity.

The three worlds of "The Master and Margarita" correspond to three groups of characters, with representatives different worlds form a kind of triads. They are united by their role and similar interaction with other heroes, as well as the Elements of portrait resemblance. Eight triads are presented in the novel: Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judea - Woland, "prince of darkness" - Professor Stravinsky, director of a psychiatric clinic; Afrany, Pilate's first assistant - Fagot-Koroviev, Woland's first assistant - Fyodor Vasilievich, doctor, Stravinsky's first assistant; centurion Mark Ratslayer - Azazello, demon of the waterless desert - Archibald Archibaldovich, director of the restaurant "House of Griboyedov"; dog Bunch - cat Behemoth - police dog Tuzbuben; Niza, agent Afrania - Gella, maid of Fagot-Korovieva - Natasha, maid of Margarita; chairman of the Sanhedrin Kaifa - chairman of MASSOLITA Berlioz - unknown in Torgsin; Judas from Kiriath - Baron Meigel - journalist Aloisy Mogarych; Levi Matthew, Yeshua's follower is the poet Ivan Homeless, the Master's disciple is the poet Alexander Ryukhin.

Let us turn to one of the significant triads of the novel: Pontius Pilate - Woland - Stravinsky. "In a white cloak with a bloody lining" appears in the world of Yershalaim Pontius Pilate. In the Moscow world, the action takes place thanks to Woland, who, like the procurator of Judea, has his own retinue. Stravinsky manages his clinic, determines the fate of those who came to him as a result of communication with Satan and his servants. It seems that the course of events in the clinic is directed by the actions of Stravinsky, a "little" likeness of Woland. Woland is a "little" likeness of Pilate, for the "prince of darkness" is almost completely devoid of any experiences that the procurator of Judea, tormented by pangs of conscience for his momentary cowardice, is so richly endowed with (courage on the battlefield and civil cowardice - as he often observed such Bulgakov among his contemporaries). Pilate tries to save Yeshua, but, finally forced to send him to his death, involuntarily becomes immortal. And in modern Moscow, the eternal Woland spa-ses the Master and gives him a reward. But the creator must die, and with him Margarita. They receive retribution in the other world. Immortality gives the Master a genius novel written by him, and Margarita - her true sincere love. Stravinsky also “rescues” the Master, who has become a victim of evil spirits; only "salvation" is a parody, for the professor can offer the Master the absolute inactive peace of the psychiatric hospital.

The power of each of the powerful characters in this triad turns out to be imaginary. Pilate is unable to change the course of events and save Yeshua. Woland, in turn, only predicts the future. So, Berlioz perishes under the wheels of a tram not because Satan "gave" him a tram and Annushka, but because he slipped on oil. Stravinsky's power is generally illusory: he is not able to deprive Ivan Bezdomny of the memories of Pilate and the death of Yeshua, of the Master and his beloved; he is unable to prevent the Master's earthly death and his transition to the other world. Material from the site

There is also a portrait resemblance between these characters: Woland "looks over forty years old" and "is clean-shaven." Stravinsky is "a thoroughly, actor-like person of about forty-five." Satan has "the right eye is black, the left eye is green for some reason", moreover, "the right eye with a golden spark at the bottom, drilling anyone to the bottom of the soul ...", the professor's eyes are "pleasant, but piercing." The outward resemblance between Stravinsky and Pilate is noted by Ivan Bezdomny (Stravinsky, like the prosecutor, also speaks Latin). Pilate and Woland are also similar. During the interrogation of Yeshua, Pilate's face turns from yellow to brown, and "the skin on Woland's face seemed to have burned a tan forever."

Eternal once and for all, this strict hierarchy reigns in the other world as well, reflecting the hierarchy of the ancient Yershalaim world and the modern Moscow one.

Bulgakov's contemporary world is also hierarchical: the Variety Theater, Stravinsky's clinic, MASSOLIT. And only the Master, Yeshua and Margarita are ruled by love. The Master and Yeshua have no place in a world dominated by hierarchy. And yet the author is convinced that above all social, political, everyday problems is feeling: love, joy.

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Three worlds in the novel by M. A. Bulgakov
The novel by MA Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita” belongs to those works that you want and definitely need to re-read in order to better understand the subtext, to see new details that you might not have noticed the first time around. This happens not only because the novel touches upon many philosophical and moral-ethical problems, but also because of the complex “three-dimensional” structure of the work.

In our world, we repeatedly encounter the number three: this is the main category of life (birth - life - death), thinking (idea - thought - action), time (past - present - future). In Christianity, too, much is built on trinity: the trinity of the divine trinity, the management of the earthly world (God - man - the Devil).
M. Bulgakov was sure that the trinity corresponds to the truth, therefore, it can be seen that the events in the novel take place in three dimensions: in the ancient “Yershalaim” world, in the modern Moscow world of the 1930s, and in the mystical, fantastic, otherworldly world. ...
At first it seems to us that these three planes hardly touch. It would seem, what kind of relationship can modern Muscovites have with heroes literary novel with the gospel theme, and even more so - with Satan himself? But very soon we realize how wrong we were. Bulgakov sees everything in his own way and offers to look at the surrounding reality (and not only at the events of the novel) in a new way.
In fact, we are witnessing a constant interaction, a close relationship of three worlds: creativity, ordinary life and higher powers, or providence. What is happening in the Master's novel about the ancient world of Yershalaim clearly echoes the events of modern Moscow. This roll call is not only external when literary heroes The “novel in the novel” is similar in portraits and actions to Muscovites (the Master shows the features of Yeshua Ha-Notsri, the Master's friend Aloisy Mogarych reminds Judas, Matvey Levi, for all his devotion, is just as limited as the poet Ivan Bezdomny). There is also a deeper similarity, because in the conversations of Pontius Pilate with Ha-Nozri, many moral issues, questions of truth, good and evil, which, as we can see, were not fully resolved either in Moscow in the 1930s, or even today - these questions belong to the category of "eternal".
Woland and his retinue are representatives of the otherworldly world, they are endowed with the ability to read in human hearts and souls, see the deep interconnections of phenomena, predict the future, and therefore Bulgakov gives them the right to act as human judges. Woland notes that internally people have changed little over the past millennia: “They are people like people. They love money, but it has always been. Well, they are frivolous ... well, well ... in general, they resemble the old ones ... ”Cowardice, greed, ignorance, spiritual weakness, hypocrisy - this is not a complete list of those vices that still guide and largely determine human life. Therefore, Woland, endowed with special power, acts not only as a punishing force that punishes careerists, sycophants, greedy and selfish, but also rewards the kind, capable of self-sacrifice, deep love, who know how to create, creating new worlds. And even those who, having committed evil, do not hide, like an ostrich, with their heads in the sand, but are responsible for their actions. Each is rewarded according to what he deserves, and very many in the novel (and the majority - to their own misfortune) get the opportunity to fulfill their desires.
In the novel's finale, all three worlds, quite clearly demarcated at the beginning, merge into one. This speaks of the close and harmonious relationship of all phenomena and events in the world. A person needs to learn to take responsibility not only for their actions, but also for emotions, thoughts, because an idea that has arisen in someone's head can be embodied in reality even at the other end of the Earth.