Master and Margarita.notebook January 26, 2010 The Master and Margarita Chapter 13 “Enter the Hero” Title sounds like a theatrical stage direction The protagonist ("hero") is introduced after 1/3 of novel Chapter 13 1 Master and Margarita.notebook January 26, 2010 • 110­111: Strange guest (the Master) is non­violent • 111, 121: Critique of Socialist Realism • 113: Ivan still states that the devil does not exist­in spite of his own experience with the numinous! (Just like Bengalsky and the other Soviet officials we have seen.) • 113: Universal theme: "Development from hopeful innocence 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 religion­­again Commentary about religion: points to Manichaeism (342) manichaeism: (See Handout) Chapter 13 2 Master and Margarita.notebook January 26, 2010 • 120­121: Master makes new friend: Aloisy Magarych Aporia: 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 writing­­aporia Commentary (348) • 125: Midnight (a marker of the Carnivalesque) Consider: In what way(s) is the Master a possible analogue for Bulgakov? Chapter 13 3 Master and Margarita.notebook January 26, 2010 Bulgakov = Woland = Yeshua Bulgakov = Master Master = Faust Woland = Mephistopheles Bulgakov = Woland = Yeshua = Faust = Master = Mephistopheles See handout on the biography of Mikhail Bulgakov Chapter 13 4 Master and Margarita.notebook January 26, 2010 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) Chapter 13 5 Attachments Witches_.ppt.