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The Master and Margarita study guide contains a biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.
Book One
The Master and Margarita takes place in two worlds: Moscow, between Wednesday night and the following Saturday night, and Pilate's world, 2000 years before in Yershayalim, during Passover. The novel begins on a Wednesday night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with Professor Woland, who is the devil. He challenges their atheism with a story, which is the reader's first introduction to Pilate's world. Pilate is questioning Yesha Ha-Nozri; though he does not want to condemn Yeshua, he realizes he must after he asks Yeshua about his conversation with Yehudah of Kerioth. Yehudah had betrayed him in front of state authority. After being pressured…
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- About The Master and Margarita
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- Glossary of Terms
- Major Themes
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- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapters 1 -2
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapters 3-6
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapters 7-9
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapter 10-12
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapters 13-15
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapters 16-17
- Summary and Analysis of Book One - Chapter 18
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 19-20
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 21-22
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 23-24
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 25-26
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 27-29
- Summary and Analysis of Book Two - Chapters 30-32
- Summary and Analysis of the Epilogue
- Explanation of "The Seventh Proof"
- Franz Ferdinand's I[Love and Destroy]
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- Test Yourself! - Quiz 3
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 4
- Test Yourself! - Quiz 5
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In my copy of the book on page 252 it says:
"After a cup of tea she went into their dark, windowless attic"
But in the beginning of Chapter 20 ("Azazello's Cream" on page 263) it says "A triple casement window in the attic, open but with the blind drawn, shone with a glare of electric light. Every lamp was burning in Margarita Nikolayevna's bedroom and lighting up the chaotically untidy room."
My question is this - does the attic have windows, or is the use of the word "attic" in the second phrase referring to the light being emitted from the the top floor?
"After a cup of tea she went into their dark, windowless attic"
But in the beginning of Chapter 20 ("Azazello's Cream" on page 263) it says "A triple casement window in the attic, open but with the blind drawn, shone with a glare of electric light. Every lamp was burning in Margarita Nikolayevna's bedroom and lighting up the chaotically untidy room."
My question is this - does the attic have windows, or is the use of the word "attic" in the second phrase referring to the light being emitted from the the top floor?
