I am sure many have read such a cult work in literature as "The Master and Margarita" by MA Bulgakov, or at least saw the series filmed based on the novel directed by Bortko. If you read literary critics and specialists, their main idea is that Bulgakov's novel shows us the struggle between good and evil, while convincing us that one cannot exist without the other. These things are interconnected and complement each other.
You will forgive me for my arrogance, but I will express my opinion that I saw for myself the main message of the author. And the thoughts of literary critics seem childish to me.
And what kind of struggle and confrontation between good and evil do critics say? Indeed, at the very beginning of the book, when Wolond meets the poet Homeless and Berlioz, the heroes talk about a very serious and important issue.
Volond, Berlioz and poet Ivan Bezdomny.
And, in my opinion, with Wolond's answer, everything becomes extremely clear who is running it. It could be anyone, God, Satan, the Devil, but clearly not the person himself!
The proof that it is not the person himself who controls his life is Volond's accurate predictions of the fate of Berlioz and the poet Ivan Bezdomny. One he predicted death under a tram, and the other a psychiatric hospital. Everything has come true!
And how Wolond did it, remember? House, seven, evening, six, misfortune. This is a natal horoscope. And this is also proof that people here do not control anything. What is a horoscope? This is an algorithm encoded in numbers for the movement of planets in orbits. And someone wrote it for us and for every person.
Speech by Volond and his retinue in front of people.
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This is what an important message Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov carried to people in his novel. He said with the words of his hero Volond, people calm down, you don’t fucking decide in this world!
And the fact that Mikhail Afanasyevich was a man who knew about mysticism also says that when the film based on his novel "Running" was filmed, the director's literary consultant Alexander Alov and Vladimir Naumov invited Bulgakov's widow Elena Sergeevna. They knew each other before working on the film. It was she who gave them the complete manuscript of the play to read. And, in the end, it was she who infected the idea of transferring it to the screen. Moreover, when work began on the script, she behaved very strangely with them. When it was necessary to add a scene, come up with an episode, she asked for time to think. And then she called with the words: "You can do as you suggested, Bulgakov likes this option." Sometimes she said: "Mikhail Afanasyevich generally approves of what you are doing, but asks to add a few details."It was she who asked to bring in the scene with the undertaker who was not in the novel itself.
Bulgakov with his wife Elena Sergeevna.
And all this already happened after the death of Bulgakov himself! Apparently he came to his wife in a dream and gave instructions on how and what to do.
This is such mysticism in Bulgakov's life and even after it.
Author: Alexander Shurlov
