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The Master and Margarita

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The Master and Margarita	comment	This novel was written by Mikhail Bulgakov in 1928-1940, but only published in the Soviet Union in 1966-1967 in a severely Bowdlerised edition. It is notable for not having a single definite main character around whom most of the plot revolves, although the Anti-Villain may qualify.The main plot nominally follows Satan, who arrives with his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits in 1930s Moscow under the guise of a foreign Professor of the occult, Woland. His true intent is to host a periodic carnival of the dead. Much of the humor and social satire in the novel is derived from Woland and his henchmen exposing the numb-skulled bureaucratic officiousness of Soviet society. He is not truly evil, but some of his pranks prove humiliating to the faux aristocracy of the Soviet Union.On their way, they cross the path of MASSOLIT, a bureaucratic association of talentless writers pumping out trash mass-production literature extolling social order — in fact, the book begins with Woland's encounter with publisher Mikhail Berlioz and poet Ivan Bezdomnynote Bezdomny is a pseudonym meaning Homeless, a parody of the "socially minded" pseudonyms popular among the early Soviet authors in general, and poet Yakov Ovcharenko, alias Ivan Pribludny (The Stray), in particular. Woland is curious about the Soviet denial of religion and the supernatural and mocks Berlioz' atheism, giving him a warning which he chooses to dismiss. Shortly after, Mikhail dies in a freak accident and Ivan is commissioned into a madhouse due to realizing the truth about Woland and his involvement. Ivan then meets the titular Master, a nameless novelist whose novel about Pontius Pilate did not pass Soviet censorship, prompting him to burn it and leaving him emotionally crippled. Meanwhile, the Master's former love Margarita Nikolayevna, seeking reunion with him, agrees to act as the queen of Woland's upcoming carnival.The main plot is interleaved with chapters from the Master's novel, telling the story of Pontius Pilate and his encounters with the wandering philosopher Yeshua Ha-Nozri (Jesus of Nazareth), his only disciple Matthew Levi and the betrayer Judas of Karioth. This storyline is united with the main one and resolved at once at the end, when the Master and Margarita grant Pilate his long-awaited spiritual union with Yeshua, whom he once doomed to crucifixion.Among Russian critics, this novel is one of the most favorite targets of the Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory syndrome, although a story featuring both Jesus and Satan as characters arguably had it coming. It has also seen a lot of adaptations, three of them in Russia (after the fall of the Soviet Union) and plenty abroad. The 2005 miniseries by Vladimir Bortko (famous for a massively popular 1988 adaptation of Bulgakov's earlier "Heart of a Dog") was perhaps the most faithful to the original text, although it was somewhat of a disappointment on the technical side, particularly in regards to questionable casting choices.
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The Master and Margarita / int_101ff175	comment	Anger Montage: The newly-empowered Margarita discovers the apartment of one of the critics responsible for ruining the Master's reputation and goes to town on it, smashing, burning, splashing ink around, overflowing the sinks until the floor collapses into the apartment below, and smashing all the windows.
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The Master and Margarita / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
The Master and Margarita / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Many of the scenes featuring Hella, Margarita, Natasha and the ball guests were anything but sexy in the novel; the series makes them a much more pleasant sight.
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The Master and Margarita / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
The Master and Margarita / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Woland, who may have inspired Mick and Keith to write that tune, mostly appears as a wealthy, educated, and flamboyantly dressed foreigner.
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The Master and Margarita / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
The Master and Margarita / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Voland introduces himself by cheerfully prophesying the imminent death of a random citizen and continues in a similar vein throughout the novel.
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The Master and Margarita / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Master and Margarita / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ivan the poet — although he is not the hero, but rather a Jerkass who eventually redeems himself — when he realizes Woland is Satan.
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The Master and Margarita / int_14e25fef	type	Magical Counterfeiting
The Master and Margarita / int_14e25fef	comment	Magical Counterfeiting: The money thrown to the audience at the Varieties theatre turns into random items the next day. In a variation, the bribe Korovyev gives to the apartment block's administrator turns from rubles to dollars, just in time for the authorities to show up and arrest the administrator for having illegal foreign currency. Combining both, when the evening's receipts are delivered to the bank the next day, they become the currencies of several Central European states.
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The Master and Margarita / int_15745e8b	comment	Shared Mass Hallucination: In the end, the authorities explain away all the supernatural events of Woland's visit as conjuring tricks and hypnotically-induced hallucinations. This includes several cases of asserting that a large group of people were induced to hallucinate the same thing together, and in the case of Likhodeyev being teleported to another city miles away, asserting that everyone who saw him in the other city was likewise hypnotised somehow by a hypnotist who was in Moscow the whole time. Given how most of the demonic magic fades away over time, this works and sounds plausible enough for the Soviet people.
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The Master and Margarita / int_16995d90	type	Right-Hand Cat
The Master and Margarita / int_16995d90	comment	Right-Hand Cat: Behemoth is one to Voland. Having said that, he also has a human form.
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The Master and Margarita / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
The Master and Margarita / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: Korovyev and Behemoth. In particular, they enjoy giving people lots of roubles that soon turn out to be worthless papers like used public transport tickets once their glamour wears off. Moreover, those people got off easy: in one case, an official was given a bribe of roubles, which was actually dollars. Sounds great (especially considering the commanding exchange rate advantage)...except for the Soviet laws barring anything to do with Western currencies as capitalist speculation and profiteering, so he gets in hot water as Korovyev phones the police to report the bribe (and even gives them the exact location of where the official stashed it before he even had time to get back home and place it there.) When Woland leaves the mortal world with his retinue, he explains that Korovyev-Fagotto hates the trickster role; he was once a mortal knight who made a particularly bad joke about light and darkness, was executed for heresy and forced to serve Woland in Hell as the joker for centuries. He pays off his debt by the end of the story, and is restored to his original, noble and serious self.
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The Master and Margarita / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
The Master and Margarita / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Azazel was the demon who taught mortal women the sinful art of painting their faces. Here, he's the one to provide the flight salve, and considering how it's supposed to be made, it can be quite a Nausea Fuel.
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The Master and Margarita / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Master and Margarita / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The film treats the original book as a novel written by the real Master (who may or may not be prophesising real events, or even making the things he writes into reality), with the story alternating between the events of the book and the reality that inspires it.
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The Master and Margarita / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Master and Margarita / int_1e7c47ab	comment	On that note, Korovyev's alias "Fagot" (Fagotto) is Russian for bassoon, the first instrument heard in the Rite, and his voice is described as having high, cracked, reedy sound, like a bassoonist struggling to play its extremely high opening notes.
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The Master and Margarita / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Master and Margarita / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Margarita accepts various magical formulae and attends a Satanic Ball in order to be reunited with her lover, the Master. Turns out better for her than these things usually do, but Satan is unusually sympathetic as well.
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The Master and Margarita / int_222446a4	type	Headache of Doom
The Master and Margarita / int_222446a4	comment	Headache of Doom: Pilate's headache before Yeshua's execution can be considered as an example.
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The Master and Margarita / int_22cfbf14	type	Answers to the Name of God
The Master and Margarita / int_22cfbf14	comment	Answers to the Name of God: A Soviet bureaucrat shouts, "The devils take me," having been thoroughly exasperated by Behemoth and Korovyev. Being more or less devils, they enthusiastically agree and promptly "take" him, leaving behind his empty animated suit. (One English translation has him saying "Damn me", with the same result.)
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The Master and Margarita / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Master and Margarita / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Ivan gets institutionalized after discussing his actual, literal meeting with Satan with a psychiatrist.
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The Master and Margarita / int_245e7c90	type	Characterizing Sitting Pose
The Master and Margarita / int_245e7c90	comment	Characterizing Sitting Pose: Woland tends to sit with one leg tucked underneath him. Being Satan in human form, he couldn't care less about social norms.
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The Master and Margarita / int_251bbe0e	type	Genre Blindness
The Master and Margarita / int_251bbe0e	comment	Genre Blindness: The Master holds Beriloz in contempt for not recognizing that a strange German gentleman who speaks esoterically about religion and calls himself Woland is the Devil; he says a seasoned literary critic ought to have known better, but forgives the more innocently ignorant Bezdomny.
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The Master and Margarita / int_2554f670	type	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter
The Master and Margarita / int_2554f670	comment	Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter: When Yeshua is executed, Matthew Levi spends some time yelling at the sky, denouncing God as cruel and worthless and demanding to be struck down; it accomplishes nothing.
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The Master and Margarita / int_25b0342b	comment	Art Deco: A lot of the interiors in the film are done in this stylenote Sort of - the USSR never had a proper Art Deco period, but influences of Art Deco were incorporated into the broader architectural style of Stalinism, known in Russia as Stalinist Empire style, and it is these influences that are front and center here., given the period and the film's emphasis on Moscow's high society.
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The Master and Margarita / int_25b7257f	type	Red Right Hand
The Master and Margarita / int_25b7257f	comment	Red Right Hand: Woland's eyes, Azazel's walleye and protruding fang, and Hella's scar.
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The Master and Margarita / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Master and Margarita / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: One of the guests at Woland's ball (housing the most famous and evil sinners from the ages past) is Freida, a woman who stuffed a handkerchief in her newborn's mouth to muffle the cries and abandoned it in the forest, and is now haunted by that handkerchief in Hell. Upon hearing Freida's story, Margarita asks why the father of the baby (who is heavily implied to have raped Freida) was judged free of guilt by the heavens; Behemoth just shrugs and replies that the man definitely did not take part in the murder itself, even if he was the reason she got pregnant in the first place. Margarita, seeing how desperate Freida has become to end her torment, even requests her forgiveness from Woland, surprising the latter quite a bit.
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The Master and Margarita / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
The Master and Margarita / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: Happily for him, the critic Latunsky is not home when Margarita comes around seeking revenge for his hatchet job on the master. When Margarita later, drunk, asks Azazello to shoot the man in the heart, the demon almost complies; realizing what she just wished for, Margarita immediately sobers and yells at him not to actually go through the request.
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The Master and Margarita / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Master and Margarita / int_2a090d00	comment	Woland's magic act promises a display of black magic followed by its exposÃ©. At some point, one of the spectators demands the exposÃ©, but fails to specify that he means exposÃ© of the magic. His own infidelity is exposed instead, lampshaded by Korovyev.
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The Master and Margarita / int_2aafefc1	type	God-Karting with Beelzebub
The Master and Margarita / int_2aafefc1	comment	God-Karting with Beelzebub: Woland is not evil, just tricky and likes to tempt mortals into traps. And though he does not meet God or Jesus 'onscreen', they're neutral at the very least. Woland punishes sinners, mocks atheists and obviously supports Christian worldview, and he fulfills Jesus's request on the Master's fate.
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The Master and Margarita / int_2b65aa76	type	Straw Critic
The Master and Margarita / int_2b65aa76	comment	Straw Critic: The victims of Woland's retinue include some of those, based on the real critics Bulgakov had to put up with (as well as literary bureaucrats and so on).
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The Master and Margarita / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
The Master and Margarita / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: At one point during her stint as a naked witch, Margarita apologises to the demon Azazello for being unclothed in front of him, and he reassures her that he's totally fine with it, for he's not only dealt before with women with no clothes on, but even women with no skin on.
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The Master and Margarita / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
The Master and Margarita / int_316e9da2	comment	Memetic Mutation: many, many catchphrases, but the most famous one is this gem regarding sturgeon delicacy in the theater buffet. Ever since, the expression was used everywhere regarding anything perishable.
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The Master and Margarita / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Master and Margarita / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Woland and his entourage get quite persnickety about characters who take bribes, engage in officially sanctioned double-think about literary merit, show greed in the face of consumer goods, or other misdemeanors one might think small relative to being a demonic force of evil. Though it helps that Soviet Russia is supposed to be about putting capitalism behind itself as backward, the same way it puts belief in beings like Woland's entourage behind them as backwards.
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The Master and Margarita / int_32c7a2a3	type	Symbolic Blood
The Master and Margarita / int_32c7a2a3	comment	Symbolic Blood: at the finale of the ball, Woland drinks of baron's blood, and offers Margarita the same drink (though his tone and gesture do not really say she can refuse). Satan himself has to order her twice, but she only drinks after Fagotto calms her over the shoulder:
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The Master and Margarita / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Master and Margarita / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Since less emphasis is given to the Jesus segment of the book, Matthew does not appear at all, while Judas is only mentioned.
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The Master and Margarita / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
The Master and Margarita / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Rimsky's supernatural encounter in the theatre office begins exactly at midnight; however, it ends with him being saved by a rooster's cry at dawn. Woland's carnival of the dead begins precisely at midnight, although in this case it's played with by showing the hosts during the preceding hour making last-minute preparations in a way that undercuts the sense of occasion.
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The Master and Margarita / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Master and Margarita / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In-universe, Woland's German accent is observed to come and go "without rhyme or reason". As the Devil, it's possible that he's doing it on purpose just to be disorienting.
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The Master and Margarita / int_37065c74	type	Hangover Sensitivity
The Master and Margarita / int_37065c74	comment	Hangover Sensitivity: The scene where Stepa Likhodeyev meets Woland may be the best description of hangover and its effects in the literature.
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The Master and Margarita / int_3e5f74c	type	Take That, Critics!
The Master and Margarita / int_3e5f74c	comment	Take That, Critics!: When Margarita transforms into a witch, she violently trashes the apartment of one of the critics who rejected and badmouthed the Master's novel. He is based on real Soviet critics that Bulgakov had to put up with. Unlike most examples of the trope, though, the kind of critics Bulgakov was condemning didn't find his works bad in a literary sense, but "ideologically incorrect".
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The Master and Margarita / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Master and Margarita / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The master and Margarita are reunited and live happily ever after — for a certain value of "live", since Woland takes them away to a world of their own in a sequence which heavily implies that they've died and carries the message that a love like theirs could not survive in the everyday world. Most of the other people who were caught up in the events, if they weren't killed outright, make some degree of recovery, but all are marked for life.
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The Master and Margarita / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Master and Margarita / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Played with. Woland, when making first impression to several characters, deliberately speaks with an exaggerated German accent (to pretend being a foreign professor), almost laughable to a Russian speaker. However, the moment he becomes serious, he then speaks without a single flaw in Russian, his tone and voice becoming either threatening or benevolent. Sometimes he changes his voice/accent during the very same conversation, which is a sign of he's no longer in the mood for jokes and prolongations.
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The Master and Margarita / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
The Master and Margarita / int_44bd31e2	comment	"Rimsky" may allude to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, essentially the Trope Codifier for Russian classical music.
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The Master and Margarita / int_46332d5a	type	Civilized Animal
The Master and Margarita / int_46332d5a	comment	Civilized Animal: Behemoth, when in his black cat form, walks on his hind legs, speaks good Russian, and engages in human pastimes like playing chess and shooting at people with tommy-guns. Most Soviet citizens who encounter him are understandably freaked out, but are soon distracted by something else, like the appearance of Woland prophesying their death, or the large sums of fake money given to them by Korovyev. In a humorous example, however, a ticket inspector doesn't care about Behemoth's speech (or his size, for that matter), and is only concerned about the rules barring cats from the public transport.
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The Master and Margarita / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Master and Margarita / int_469e3e2f	comment	Downplayed in the epilogue, which returns to the early In-Universe point of view as the characters attempt to rationalize what happened. There are no direct references to the devil, though an investigation into the preceding events is described as "hellish." The narrator refers to "whispers of an 'evil power'" which he does not himself believe, calling them "preposterous rumors."
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The Master and Margarita / int_48de3cc6	type	The Music Meister
The Master and Margarita / int_48de3cc6	comment	The Music Meister: Woland supernaturally makes a crowd of people sing involuntarily.
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The Master and Margarita / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
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The Master and Margarita / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Master and Margarita / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Berlioz, a convinced atheist, is sentenced by Woland to be briefly revived after death, only to hear that everyone gets an afterlife they deserve. Then he's reduced to ash and is sent to oblivion with no afterlife at all - just what he believed in - while his skull is made into a drinking cup.
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The Master and Margarita / int_4ce20451	type	Rhetorical Request Blunder
The Master and Margarita / int_4ce20451	comment	Rhetorical Request Blunder: Several people get in trouble from using metaphorical expression involving the devil while Woland is in town, such as the man who says "devil take me" as a rhetorical intensifier and immediately disappears. Margarita's first encounter with one of Woland's minions occurs immediately after she thinks that she would pawn her soul to the devil just to find out whether her missing love is still alive; it turns out much better for her than these things often do.
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The Master and Margarita / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Master and Margarita / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: Totally averted — Woland and his pals never bother to explain their motivations when they behead, beat and kidnap people, burn a restaurant and, in general, wreak havoc. They're the devil and his servants, after all.
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The Master and Margarita / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Master and Margarita / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Lots of bureaucrats and high-ranking functionaries in the Moscow storylines. Caifas in the Jerusalem storyline.
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The Master and Margarita / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
The Master and Margarita / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Zig-zagged with Woland's identity throughout the early part of the novel. At first the narrator avoids saying outright that Woland is Satan — fair enough, since it's pretty clear from the start. However, it also stands out because of the many casual references to the devil in any other context. For example, the narrator often states "the devil only knows" some irrelevant minor detail, and many characters use phrases like "what the devil" to express surprise.note There are more connections in the original Russian, like Woland dressing in black, the Russian word for which shares a root with a synonym for "devil." This suggests that the narrator is going out of his way not to state the obvious, mirroring the increasingly-strained disbelief of the characters In-Universe. Ultimately averted after the theater performance, when Woland and his entourage's supernatural abilities are revealed to the broader public. Woland hosts an event that's explicitly called Satan's Grand Ball. Elsewhere, when a character mutters "devil take me" in frustration, Korovyev is happy to oblige. Downplayed in the epilogue, which returns to the early In-Universe point of view as the characters attempt to rationalize what happened. There are no direct references to the devil, though an investigation into the preceding events is described as "hellish." The narrator refers to "whispers of an 'evil power'" which he does not himself believe, calling them "preposterous rumors." There is only one reference to Christ in the novel — in chapter 18, when a character mutters "for Christ's sake" in response to being harassed by Hella. Yeshua, the character, is always referred to by that name to distance him from Christ, the religious figure. See Expospeak Gag.
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The Master and Margarita / int_56d0b84c	type	Buffoonish Tomcat
The Master and Margarita / int_56d0b84c	comment	Buffoonish Tomcat: Behemoth, the demon cat, is very often the Butt-Monkey and Plucky Comic Relief among Woland's retinue, constantly getting told to shut up by everyone and being the target of comical abuse like getting his ears pinched for talking too much. He even gets crap from a mortal human like Margarita.
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The Master and Margarita / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Master and Margarita / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: The book plays with this trope repeatedly. Woland has a key scene near the end where he's called the "sovereign of shadows" and responds that, like the shadows, he's a necessary part of life; everything, animate and inanimate, has a shadow: if you want to be rid of the shadows, the only way is to also be rid of everything else in the world.
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The Master and Margarita / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Master and Margarita / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: Subverted. Behemoth is working for the Devil and takes the form of a cat while pulling all sorts of nasty pranks, but the epilogue makes it clear that cats in general aren't mean and it's a bad thing when people take out their fear and anger about Behemoth onto normal cats.
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The Master and Margarita / int_5d6e6919	type	Magicians Are Wizards
The Master and Margarita / int_5d6e6919	comment	Magicians Are Wizards: Professor Woland is a magician who performs a magic act. Given that he is actually the devil, this act involves real magic, but the audience is convinced there must be some trick behind it and demands him to reveal his secret.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6040801a	type	Self-Inflicted Hell
The Master and Margarita / int_6040801a	comment	Self-Inflicted Hell: Berlioz, who believes in nothing, gets nothing after death.
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The Master and Margarita / int_609eb275	type	Satan Is Good
The Master and Margarita / int_609eb275	comment	Satan Is Good: Woland and his entourage go around Moscow punishing all sorts of terrible people and help a separated couple who're sincerely in love find each other again.
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The Master and Margarita / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Master and Margarita / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: see Meaningful Name, the demons are not even trying to conceal their true nature when they introduce themselves, but most characters only see it as weird, foreign surnames, even if they are literally named Woland ("Devil"), Azazel, Hella or Behemoth. On a lesser grade, Centurion Mark Maribellum, literally translated as "Ratkiller" (as in, exterminator).
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The Master and Margarita / int_62697dee	type	The Master
The Master and Margarita / int_62697dee	comment	The Master: The title character of this novel falls under the exception about teachers and maestros, since he is called "the master" because of his literary achievement rather than because of any desire for power. Far from being a villain, he is one of the most good and kind-hearted characters in the book.
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The Master and Margarita / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Master and Margarita / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: During Woland's magic show, Behemoth rips off Bengalsky's head. Bengalsky's severed head is conscious and horrified by the ordeal. They soon put his head back on with him being no worse for wear.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6521f35c	type	Enter Eponymous
The Master and Margarita / int_6521f35c	comment	Enter Eponymous: The chapter in which the Master is introduced is titled "Enter the Hero".
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The Master and Margarita / int_6a0297a8	type	What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?
The Master and Margarita / int_6a0297a8	comment	What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?: In-universe, the powers-that-be in the literary world all assume that the Master's work is actually Christian apologia, because it has Jesus and Pontius Pilate as main characters. Given the political climate of the time, it doesn't turn out well for the Master.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6a22d156	type	Woolseyism
The Master and Margarita / int_6a22d156	comment	MASSOLIT's mission is to create literature for the masses, but the name can also be read as a mass of literature, implying a preference for quantity over quality. More generally, it's a parody of Soviet-style acronyms, whose overuse Bulgakov found hilarious. One English edition suggests the Woolseyism "LOTSALIT" conveys the joke better since the tone of the original is Lost in Translation.note See Ellendea Proffer's gloss to the Burgin and O'Connor translation.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Master and Margarita / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When the Master is telling his life story to Ivan, he mentions that he knew long before he reached the end of his novel what the final words would be, and tells Ivan what they are. When we finally get to read, the Master's novel does indeed end with those words (more or less, depending on the translation) — and so also does The Master and Margarita end with the same words.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Master and Margarita / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Many alluding to the Bible, music, or Faust myth: Behemoth is a mythical monster from the Bible — specifically, from the Book of Job, another story about the Devil walking the earth and testing people. But "behemoth" is also the Russian word for the hippopotamus, and thinking of him as a large cat called "Hippo" captures the side of him that is part of the novel's comic relief. Griboyedov House is a play on the real-life Herzen House (both Griboyedov and Herzen were prominent 19th-century literary and political figures). The scene where Ivan appears at Griboyedov House parodies a scene in its eponym's play Woe from Wit. Several characters share names with famous composers: Berlioz composed the opera The Damnation of Faust. "Rimsky" may allude to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, essentially the Trope Codifier for Russian classical music. Stravinsky composed The Rite of Spring, which notoriously disturbed the audience into a riot at its first performance. In the novel, Korovyev's disturbing tricks cause several characters to check into Dr. Stravinsky's mental hospital. On that note, Korovyev's alias "Fagot" (Fagotto) is Russian for bassoon, the first instrument heard in the Rite, and his voice is described as having high, cracked, reedy sound, like a bassoonist struggling to play its extremely high opening notes. "Korovyev" itself may be a Line-of-Sight Name taken from the street where the story starts. Margarita is another Faust reference, but also hints at several historical figures, most notably the French queen Margaurite de Valois. Fagotto mentions that it's deliberate in-universe, as not only Woland wants the queen of his ball named Margarita, as is the tradition, but the titular heroine is also a distant descendant to Her Majesty. Panayev and Skabichevsky, the aliases adopted by Korovyov and Behemoth when they appear at Griboyedov House, were 19th-century writers. Bulgakov may have intended the reference as a subtle Take That! since one critical edition describes both writers as "very second-rate," much like the members of MASSOLIT. MASSOLIT's mission is to create literature for the masses, but the name can also be read as a mass of literature, implying a preference for quantity over quality. More generally, it's a parody of Soviet-style acronyms, whose overuse Bulgakov found hilarious. One English edition suggests the Woolseyism "LOTSALIT" conveys the joke better since the tone of the original is Lost in Translation.note See Ellendea Proffer's gloss to the Burgin and O'Connor translation. "Woland" is a traditional German name for the Devil that's particularly associated with Faust stories. Likhodeyev literally means "Evildoer".
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The Master and Margarita / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
The Master and Margarita / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Hella the witch is naked for most of her scenes (although see below for how that's sometimes not a pleasant sight) and Margarita and Natasha, once they become witches, spend most of their time naked as well. The TV series conveniently covers their privates with whatever the particular scene allows - from shadows to an apron - but leaves everything else in plain sight.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6d167cf	type	Good Needs Evil
The Master and Margarita / int_6d167cf	comment	Good Needs Evil: Woland asserts this to Matthew Levi near the end:
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The Master and Margarita / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Master and Margarita / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Most of the narration is third-person omniscient, but every now and then the narrator instructs the reader to "please note" some particular detail; or comments on how the real events he's describing were later mis-reported In-Universe; or goes off on satiric or downright strange asides:
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The Master and Margarita / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Master and Margarita / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: MASSOLIT can refer to literature for the masses or a mass of literature.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6f9bb97e	type	MaidOfSexy
The Master and Margarita / int_6f9bb97e	comment	Maid Of Sexy: Hella, as Woland's handmaiden, sometimes wears a maid's cap and apron. And nothing else. Natasha, once she becomes a witch, grows supernaturally attractive.
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The Master and Margarita / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Master and Margarita / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: In return for hosting Woland's ball, Margarita chooses to ask for Freida, a damned soul she met at the ball, to be forgiven — but while she does feel sorry for Freida, Margarita mostly does it because she gave Freida hope that she could help her, and if the woman is cheated she'll feel no peace for the rest of her life.
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The Master and Margarita / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
The Master and Margarita / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: A comic example: Archibald Archibaldovich calmly walking out of the burning Griboyedov House after Korovyov and Behemoth's visit, with two logs of (admittedly rare and expensive) smoked sturgeon under his arm.
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The Master and Margarita / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
The Master and Margarita / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the book, the Master is merely a victim of literary criticism, and submits himself into a mental asylum voluntarly. In the film, he eventually runs afoul of the Soviet authorities, who send him off to an asylum as a form of imprisonment.
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The Master and Margarita / int_75d98040	type	Magical Barefooter
The Master and Margarita / int_75d98040	comment	Magical Barefooter: Margarita, after she becomes a witch. Sometimes she wears clothes and sometimes she doesn't, but she clearly demonstrates a disregard for shoes.
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The Master and Margarita / int_769dd1e3	type	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt
The Master and Margarita / int_769dd1e3	comment	Foreign Money Is Proof of Guilt: One character gets arrested because the police find foreign currency in his apartment. He had accepted a bribe from Woland, in rubles. Woland's henchman Korovyev then anonymously called the police, who found the currency, now mysteriously American dollars. At the time, possession of foreign currency was indeed a crime in the Soviet Union.
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The Master and Margarita / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
The Master and Margarita / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: After his first encounter with Woland, Ivan the homeless attempts to warn the authorities but he's so stressed that he can't string a coherent narrative together — and the events he's trying to describe are so implausible to begin with — with the result that he gets committed to a mental institution for the rest of the novel. When Ivan begs the doctors to let him go, the lead psychiatrist just calmly allows him to walk away at any time if he believes himself to be sane; however, he correctly points out that the moment Ivan goes to the police and tells his story about the encounter with Satan, that's an immediate trip back to the asylum before he even finishes the tale. (Morover, the fact that he (at least at first) can't understand why no one belives him is considered a sign the he may be genuinly mentally ill.)
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The Master and Margarita / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
The Master and Margarita / int_7c58fe32	comment	Louis Cypher: In German folk legend, Woland is an old nickname for the Devil, and Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust goes one time by this moniker.
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The Master and Margarita / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Master and Margarita / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Berlioz the atheist is decapitated in a streetcar accident. The master of ceremonies at the variety show suffers this after insisting that Woland's magic is nothing but clever tricks. His head is reattached at the insistence of the audience, but he is never the same again.
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The Master and Margarita / int_854e85b0	type	Casts No Shadow
The Master and Margarita / int_854e85b0	comment	Casts No Shadow: One of the signs that there's something up with the undead Varenukha is that he doesn't cast a shadow.
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The Master and Margarita / int_85cefc44	type	Sympathetic Adulterer
The Master and Margarita / int_85cefc44	comment	Sympathetic Adulterer: Margarita is married to a man who loves her and gives her anything she could want, but because she's so unhappy in her marriage and only wants to be with the Master, the reader sympathizes with her. It might be harder to sympathize with the Master, who is also married but can't even remember his wife's name, if not for his own sufferings.
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The Master and Margarita / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Master and Margarita / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Hella disappears from the story after Margarita is reunited with the Master, and isn't even present in Woland's retinue during their flight from Moscow. According to Elena Sergeevna Shilovskaya, Bulgakov's third wife, the author forgot to include her because he was never able to finish his novel properly.
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The Master and Margarita / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
The Master and Margarita / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: The film treats the magical aspects of the book as either in-universe fiction, or what could just be brushed off as delusions or eerie coincidences.
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The Master and Margarita / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
The Master and Margarita / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: It is implied, at various times and depending on the translation that the Master/Woland/Berlioz wrote some/all/none of the book. Epileptic Trees spring up occasionally that suggest Behemoth, Azazel, Margarita, etc. are somehow in on this as well.
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The Master and Margarita / int_8a677d70	type	Naked Apron
The Master and Margarita / int_8a677d70	comment	Naked Apron: Hella wears this when she's not completely naked.
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The Master and Margarita / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Master and Margarita / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The Master's novel has Pontius Pilate as its main character, who while cruel, is far from unsympathetic. Matthew the Evangelist is depicted as a somewhat crazy hanger-on of Jesus, and doesn't record his words very accurately.
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The Master and Margarita / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Master and Margarita / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Towards Russian society; possibly also towards many individuals on whom the asshole victims were supposedly based.
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The Master and Margarita / int_8f1bb87c	type	Deliberately Painful Clothing
The Master and Margarita / int_8f1bb87c	comment	Deliberately Painful Clothing: Margarita wears a huge metal medallion at Woland's ball (the TV series also adds razor-sharp steel shoes and a spiked crown mocking the Crown of Thorns). The metal keeps cutting her skin, making every moment painful, but she never complains, because it is the sign of her as the Queen. She was promised that the ball would be harmless; no one said it would be ''painless''.
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The Master and Margarita / int_95713538	type	Outside Ride
The Master and Margarita / int_95713538	comment	Outside Ride: In one scene, Behemoth the cat who behaves like a human attempts to board a streetcar, only to be turned away by the conductress. Instead he hitches a lift on the back of the streetcar (which, the narrator notes, is exactly what a human would have done in the same situation).
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The Master and Margarita / int_95a18ad7	type	Devil in Disguise
The Master and Margarita / int_95a18ad7	comment	Devil in Disguise: Satan disguises himself as a professor and magician, calling himself Woland, while visiting Moscow.
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The Master and Margarita / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
The Master and Margarita / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: During a showdown between Behemoth and the Moscow police, a firefight ensues in which nobody gets injured — in a tiny room. Behemoth is just messing with the cops, and so uses his demonic powers to make sure bullets either disappear, or at least don't hurt anyone.
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The Master and Margarita / int_9d1a935f	type	Brought to You by the Letter "S"
The Master and Margarita / int_9d1a935f	comment	Brought to You by the Letter "S": Margarita made the Master a cap with the letter "M" on it.
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The Master and Margarita / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Master and Margarita / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Woland has a pretty awesome one, complete with Ominous Latin Chanting (and a few abracadabras thrown in for good measure).
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The Master and Margarita / int_a2968da6	type	If Only You Knew
The Master and Margarita / int_a2968da6	comment	If Only You Knew: Many characters make mentions of the Devil rhetorically, often right in front of Woland, without knowing who he is.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a47278a0	type	Niceness Denial
The Master and Margarita / int_a47278a0	comment	Niceness Denial: When Woland tells Margarita that he will fulfill her only wish, she asks for Frieda — a woman who is tormented in hell by memories of how she killed her new-born child. Woland is disgusted by Margarita's mercy, but she quickly denies it.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
The Master and Margarita / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: Woland's carnival of the dead begins precisely on the stroke of midnight and lasts for hours, but when it ends it's still midnight.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Master and Margarita / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Pilate accuses Yeshua of this, and there is some evidence: When asked if he speaks any languages beside Aramaic, Yeshua replies that he also speaks Greek. He deliberately neglects to mention that he also speaks Latin, and so understands everything said in the courtroom.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Master and Margarita / int_a8559a9f	comment	Berlioz's "evil apartment" has the same address as a Real Life apartment where Bulgakov lived in the early 1920s, which he hated. Today the building houses a museum dedicated to the author.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
The Master and Margarita / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The Moscow shown in the novel segments of the film is very clearly not the actual city, but rather Moscow as it was planned to be built, where the Stalinist New Moscow city plan was realised in its entirety. The most obvious indicator of this is the presence of the Palace of the Soviets, a gigantic Stalinist skyscraper that was never constructed in real life due to World War II.
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The Master and Margarita / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
The Master and Margarita / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Centurion Marcus Maribellum ("Ratkiller") is described as "a head taller than the tallest soldier of the legion and so broad in the shoulders that he completely blocked out the still-low sun".
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The Master and Margarita / int_a95fbce6	type	Mad Eye
The Master and Margarita / int_a95fbce6	comment	Mad Eye: Woland's left eye is green, and his right eye is black. The green eye is described as "completely mad", and the black eye is "dead and expressionless".
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The Master and Margarita / int_aa92a5d2	type	Mega Neko
The Master and Margarita / int_aa92a5d2	comment	Mega Neko: Behemoth is a cat as large as a hog.
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The Master and Margarita / int_ab0a1453	type	Prematurely Grey-Haired
The Master and Margarita / int_ab0a1453	comment	Prematurely Grey-Haired: Rimsky is prematurely aged by his ordeal the night after the magic show, including his hair turning completely white.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
The Master and Margarita / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Behemoth, though he is actually a demon in the form of a large black cat.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b51a2dd8	type	Demythification
The Master and Margarita / int_b51a2dd8	comment	Demythification: The Master's approach to Jesus in his Pontius Pilate novel. Nothing unambiguously supernatural occurs, and Yeshua is characterized as a philosopher who speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven only as a metaphor and is misunderstood by his followers.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Master and Margarita / int_b53077b3	comment	Particularly choice moment of anti-bureaucratic Take That!: a ticket inspector is quite unfazed by Behemoth's being a giant, biped, talking cat, but furious that he is breaking the regulation against cats on public transport. Even though he offers the right change for his fare.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
The Master and Margarita / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: See the quote at the top of the page; it sets the main theme for the rest of the novel. (It's originally from Goethe's Faust.)
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The Master and Margarita / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The Master and Margarita / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The epilogue details what happens to every character that Woland messed with in the years after the events of the story.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b826ab9a	type	Living Clothes
The Master and Margarita / int_b826ab9a	comment	Living Clothes: A man unwisely uses the expression "devil take me" while Woland's crew are looking for mischief to do, and immediately disappears — leaving behind his clothes, which carry on moving around as if he were still inside them.
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The Master and Margarita / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Master and Margarita / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: The Jesus Christ segment of the book is given much less attention than in the original.
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The Master and Margarita / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Master and Margarita / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: In the first chapter, Woland predicts that Berlioz will soon be beheaded by young women of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). Berlioz laughs off this unlikely prediction, but leaving the meeting he slips on a puddle of oil (spilled by the local girl Anna) and falls in the path of a tram, which is unable to stop in time, and his head is severed; the last thing Berlioz sees in his life is the face of the driver of the tram, a young woman.
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The Master and Margarita / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
The Master and Margarita / int_bb7ae292	comment	A special place is taken by Freida, one of the damned souls in Woland's ball. Sins of many guests are mentioned, but she's the only one whose punishment is casually, cheerfully retold by Fagotto. After giving birth to her involuntarily conceived son, Freida choked the baby to death by shoving a handkerchief in his mouth. In Hell, she finds that same handkerchief near her bed every single morning, no matter how hard she tries to get rid of it. By the time Freida meets Margarita, she's desperately telling the queen her name over and over in an attempt to make herself noticed. Margarita then personally requests for Freida to be forgiven.
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The Master and Margarita / int_bc1865fb	type	Deader than Dead
The Master and Margarita / int_bc1865fb	comment	Deader than Dead: The fate of Berlioz. Since Berlioz arrogantly denied the possibility of a supernatural soul or spirit, Woland destroys his soul as well as his body, thus denying Berlioz the possibility of an afterlife.
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The Master and Margarita / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Master and Margarita / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Azazel boasts that he can not only shoot anybody through the heart at will, but through a specific chamber of the heart nominated in advance, and demonstrates that he can shoot a specific pip out of a playing card that's hidden under a cushion while facing the other direction and shooting back over his shoulder.
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The Master and Margarita / int_bf64a255	type	Rock Me, Asmodeus!
The Master and Margarita / int_bf64a255	comment	Rock Me, Asmodeus!: The novel predates Rock & Roll, but the orchestra at Woland's ball features several historical celebrity musicians, including Johann Strauss as its conductor. Later, as the Master departs for the afterlife, Woland promises he can "listen to Schubert at night," among other perks.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Master and Margarita / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The Master's novel.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c3accb7c	type	Double Speak
The Master and Margarita / int_c3accb7c	comment	Double Speak: Toward the end of the master's novel, Pilate summons the head of his secret service and informs him that he has reason to believe that one of Yeshua's followers is planning to murder Judas in revenge for him shopping Yeshua to the authorities. The head of the secret service (correctly) understands this as an instruction to have Judas killed in such a way that it appears to have been done by one of Yeshua's followers.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
The Master and Margarita / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Azazel and Hella, two of the members of Woland's retinue.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Master and Margarita / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Woland, literally.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Master and Margarita / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: All female guests at the Satan's Great Ball are naked as part of the strict dress code. And they were chosen and invited for their evilness, not for the youth and beauty. Also, when people see Hella they're either disgusted by the fact that she's wearing nothing but an apron — these foreigners!!! — or terrified because she looks so unnatural and is about to attack them.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
The Master and Margarita / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: In the epilogue, people kill many black tomcats and go after people whose name sounds like Woland or Koroviev as a reaction to the events of the book.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
The Master and Margarita / int_c6c5ce4	comment	Bedlam House: Averted with the insane asylum the Master and Ivan find themselves in, which is clean, staffed with and managed by competent professionals, and very well appointed considering there's a housing crisis at the time. The Master emphatically likes the place, especially since his alternative would be the streets.
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The Master and Margarita / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Master and Margarita / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Particularly to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama of Faust. Mikhail Berlioz is named after Hector Berlioz, who wrote the opera The Damnation of Faust; when the Master deduces that the mysterious figure associated with the death of Mikhail Berlioz is Satan, he asks Ivan if he's familiar with the opera. The scene where Rimsky has a ghostly encounter that begins at midnight and ends when the spectre is frightened away by a rooster greeting the dawn may be a shout-out to Hamlet, where the first appearance of the old king's ghost goes the same way.
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The Master and Margarita / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
The Master and Margarita / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: Moscow and Yershalaim, with the book switching between the two at regular intervals.
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The Master and Margarita / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Master and Margarita / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It is not clear how real Woland, and the magic of the book in general, are.
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The Master and Margarita / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Master and Margarita / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: One of the victims of Korovyev's karmic trickery is a senior bureaucrat in Moscow's theatre scene who has been carrying on an affair with an actress in return for getting her better parts. At the moment this is revealed, he is accompanied by a young woman he has introduced as a cousin from out of town, but her reaction to the revelation implies that she's another actress he's being carrying on with the same way at the same time.
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The Master and Margarita / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
The Master and Margarita / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: Most of the Soviet officials deny that anything supernatural or even terribly out of the ordinary is happening as Woland and his minions wreak havoc across Moscow, because to do so would contradict both atheistic Communist ideology and make them appear incompetent.
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The Master and Margarita / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Master and Margarita / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: Woland and his retinue put on a magic show at the variety theatre as a way of testing the mettle of Moscow's citizens. The audience assumes that everything they see is just a clever conjuring trick, even the parts like the theatre's master of ceremonies getting his head removed after he annoys Korovyev.
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The Master and Margarita / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Bulgakov dragged as many subtle details about accurate classical demonology into the book as the censorship at the time could possibly allow; each little detail about Woland and his retinue is an actual part of how demons were depicted, some of which include: Satan's injured leg is said to have been fractured in his fall from Heaven. Black poodle (which the head of Woland's cane is shaped like) is one of the symbols of the devil. Azazel was the demon who taught mortal women the sinful art of painting their faces. Here, he's the one to provide the flight salve, and considering how it's supposed to be made, it can be quite a Nausea Fuel. Even Fagotto's manner of clothing is consistent with the demonic habit of dressing in any way but what's considered acceptable in the region they appear in. The ball has a fountain with champagne (a white sparkling wine). Demons and witches in the folk legends never drink red wine (the blood of Christ).
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