The Master and Margarita
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Epilogue
Themes
All Themes Courage and Cowardice Art and Authenticity The Ambiguity of Good and Evil Love and Hope The Danger and Absurdity of Soviet Society
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Characters
All Characters Woland Margarita The Master Pontius Pilate Yeshua Ha-Nozri Matthew Levi Ivan “Homeless” Nikolaevich Ponyrev Mikhael Alexandrovich Berlioz Styopa Likhodeev Nikanor Ivanovich Bosoy Koroviev Behemoth Azazello Hella Natasha Nikolai Ivanovich Abaddon Grigory Danilovich Rimsky Judas of Kiriath Joseph Kaifa Banga Baron Meigel Frieda Bar-Rabban Alexander Riukhin Maximillian Andreevich Poplavsky Arkady Apollonovich Aloisy Mogarych Andrei Fokich Sokov
Symbols
All Symbols Woland’s Black Poodle Walking Stick The Moon/Moonlight Briefcases Horses
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Anthropomorphism Dramatic Irony Foil Foreshadowing Frame Story Genre Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Irony Mood Motifs Paradox Personification Satire Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone Unreliable Narrator Verbal Irony
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by Mikhail Bulgakov
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