The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

by

Mikhail Bulgakov

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Hella Character Analysis

Hella is a beautiful redheaded succubus and part of Woland’s entourage. She is a vampire and almost always appears naked. Administering care is part of her role in the group: she rubs Woland’s injured knee with ointment and helps Margarita prepare for Satan’s Ball. Interestingly, she does not appear in the final scene as Woland and his entourage, together with the master and Margarita, fly away from Moscow on horseback.

Hella Quotes in The Master and Margarita

The The Master and Margarita quotes below are all either spoken by Hella or refer to Hella. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Courage and Cowardice Theme Icon
).
Chapter 10 Quotes

Here the two robbers vanished, and in their place there appeared in the front hall a completely naked girl – red-haired, her eyes burning with a phosphorescent gleam.

Varenukha understood that this was the most terrible of all things that had ever happened to him and, moaning, recoiled against the wall. But the girl came right up to the administrator and placed the palms of her hands on his shoulders. Varenukha’s hair stood on end, because even through the cold, water-soaked cloth of his Tolstoy blouse he could feel that those palms were still colder, that their cold was the cold of ice.

‘Let me give you a kiss,’ the girl said tenderly, and there were shining eyes right in front of his eyes. Then Varenukha fainted and never felt the kiss.

Related Characters: Hella (speaker), Ivan Savalyevich Varenukha
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis:
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Hella Quotes in The Master and Margarita

The The Master and Margarita quotes below are all either spoken by Hella or refer to Hella. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Courage and Cowardice Theme Icon
).
Chapter 10 Quotes

Here the two robbers vanished, and in their place there appeared in the front hall a completely naked girl – red-haired, her eyes burning with a phosphorescent gleam.

Varenukha understood that this was the most terrible of all things that had ever happened to him and, moaning, recoiled against the wall. But the girl came right up to the administrator and placed the palms of her hands on his shoulders. Varenukha’s hair stood on end, because even through the cold, water-soaked cloth of his Tolstoy blouse he could feel that those palms were still colder, that their cold was the cold of ice.

‘Let me give you a kiss,’ the girl said tenderly, and there were shining eyes right in front of his eyes. Then Varenukha fainted and never felt the kiss.

Related Characters: Hella (speaker), Ivan Savalyevich Varenukha
Page Number: 114
Explanation and Analysis: