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Master And Margarita Born In Book Review

Although the novel ends with an open-ended question about the fate of the two titular characters, it is clear that Margarita has the power to create her own reality. Mikhail Bulgakov uses three literary elements in the novel the Master and the Margarita: a multiple layered reality, symbolism, and magical realism. Each of these three literary devices helps the author to convey the central themes of greed, corruption, and social control during and after the Russian Revolution. The multiple layers of reality allow Bulgakov to explore the central themes from multiple points-of-view and perspectives. The multiple layers of reality also prevent...

Symbolism also permits the exploration of greed, corruption, and social control without directly implicating Stalin or Soviet bureaucracy in the degradation of humanity. Finally, magical realism allows the author -- and his readers -- to imagine how human beings can escape greed, corruption, and social control by wielding their witch-like creative powers.
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Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and the Margarita. Vintage, 1996.

Liukkonen, Petri. "Mihail Bulgakov." Books and Writers. Retrieved online: http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bulgakov.htm

"Master and Margarita: Introduction." eNotes. Retrieved online: http://www.enotes.com/master-margarita

"Mikhail Bulgakov in the Western World: A Bibliography." Library of Congress: European Reading Room. Retrieved online: http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/bulgaklc.html

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita (1997). Retrieved online: http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt

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