Abstract

This inquiry into the Stalinist-era Soviet novel, The Master and Margarita, tries to establish and examine a link between its title characters and its author's real-life experience. Questions concerning morality and ethics emerge as a consequence of close analysis. Bulgakov's literary use of illusion, metaphysics, and the surreal to express his worldview, in essence, helps us to understand the extremes of Soviet censorship and totalitarianism in the 1930s