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Rdrama Bookclub Thread #5 :marseyreading: The Master and Margarita (Chap 25-Epilogue) Part II

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This this is the final discussion thread of Master and Margarita.

The next bookclub choice is Faust Part I by Goethe, the first discussion thread will be held on Sunday, August 12th. I'll make a thread tomorrow to decide the number of pages.

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I liked the discussion between Woland and Matthew about the fate of M & M, but it did kinda bum me out that they weren't allowed "into the light" but overall seems like they got a happy ending so that's nice. :marseyembrace:

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Even Pilate got kind of a Happy Ending

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It's interesting that Bulgakov depicts Woland as equally powerful as Yeshua

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I don't really think that's the case

>He has read the master's work,' said Matthew Levi, ‘and asks you to take the master with you and reward him with peace. Is that hard for you to do, spirit of evil?'

>‘Nothing is hard for me to do,' answered Woland, ‘you know that very well.' He paused and added: ‘But why don't you take him with you into the light?'

>‘He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace,' Levi said in a sor- rowful voice.

>‘Tell him it will be done,' Woland replied and added, his eye flashing: ‘And leave me immediately.'

They are not allowed into Heaven, just as in the Bible, Satan is portrayed as being beneath God. Instead Master and Margarita are taken in some sort of limbo, but they still have peace, much like Virgil in the Divine Comedy.

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it did kinda bum me out that they weren't allowed "into the light"

I think that's Bulgakov's survivors guilt. Like the Master, Bulgakov never published his magnum opus for fear of Stalin's purges. That hundreds of Bulgakov's friends and peers were tortured and executed in NKVD dungeons, must have weighed heavily on him in his last years. After all, the devout Bulkagov was certainly more "guilty" than most of them, and yet he survived only because Stalin happened to enjoy one of his plays.

That's why Yeshua says the greatest sin is cowardice.

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