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Satire
Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Woland and his accomplices never sit still, and neither does The Master and Margarita. The novel ranges wide and far in its selection of scenery, taking the reader from 1940s Moscow to biblical Jerusalem (named Yerushalayim in Aramaic) and multiple fantastical worlds in between. Woland and his crew enter a 20th-century Soviet world as they meddle with theater directors and lead poets down familiar landmarks such as Arbat Square and Patriarch’s Ponds. They set up shop in apartment Number 50 and work mischief upon the locals, their exploits offering a glimpse of Moscow’s “brightly lit thoroughfares” and “dark alleys.”
