What do you think is the main theme of Master and Margarita?

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The Master and Margarita

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Abstract

It not easy to determine the main theme of Bulgakov 's The Master and Margarita . Love and hate , good and evil are combined in the complicated vision of Soviet realities presented by the author . The realism of supernatural absurdity is followed by the reader from the beginning to the very end of the novel . This is why in this essay we evaluate the relevance and consistence of absurdity in Bulgakov 's

The Master and Margarita

What is the Main Theme of Bulgakov 's Master and Margarita

Introduction

In his The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov has combined the incompatible elements of love and hate , realism and myth , and even the past and the present . The absurdity of numerous Bulgakov 's ideas and ideals is increased under the pressure of terrible Soviet realities . The Soviet period of the Russian history was filled with numerous absurd examples of confusing the good with the evil and replacing existence with xistence . This is why Bulgakov was trying to depict the absurdity of the Soviet life through the absurdity of events and happenings in his The Master and Margarita . As we face this absurdity at each stage of The Master and Margarita 's discourse , absurdity becomes the leading theme of Bulgakov 's novel . In this context , it is also impossible to separate absurdity from the ambiguous combination of the supernatural with Soviet realities : on the background of the Soviet existence , supernatural sometimes becomes more dramatic and less comprehensible to the reader . Thesis statement : the main theme of The Master and Margarita is the combination of absurdity and the supernatural , which emphasizes the complicatedness of the Soviet reality and serves the instrument of satire upon the Soviet way of life

The Master and Margarita : the absurdity and the supernatural in Soviet realities

The literary research of Bulgakov 's novel faces several substantial obstacles . First , the thread of ambiguity is stretched through the novel , making it difficult to distinguish the primary themes from the secondary discussions . Second , Bulgakov exploits so many literary themes and subjects that all of them seem important . Third , the variety of critical commentaries has already shown the impossibility of reducing Bulgakov 's novel to one single interpretation (Piper , 1971 . This is why the exact choice of the main theme in Bulgakov 's The Master and Margarita depends on the reader . Moreover , the choice of the specific determines the angle , from which the novel is read and creates a readers

Absurdism is a philosophy holding that humans exist in a meaningless irrational universe , that it is impossible to explain in a rational way why there is life and that all efforts meant to explain the essentials of the universe are doomed to fail (Todorov , 1994 . In Bulgakov 's novel , Woland is the leader , the source , and in many instances , the interpreter of the discussed absurdism . Simultaneously , if we look deeper into the plot of the...