The problem of true love, Master and Margarita. The love story of the master and Margarita

­ Eternal love

The work "The Master and Margarita" is a novel about true love, for which a person is ready to sacrifice everything. M.A. Bulgakov depicted this eternal and sublime feeling in such a way that no one else had succeeded before. He had a special, peculiar perception of love, but in all respects, correct. The main characters of the novel are so overwhelmed by this feeling that everything else ceases to be important for them. In particular, Margarita is a proud woman, ready to give up her arranged life, material goods, peace and well-being only for the sake of being close to the poor, who has nothing in his soul except the Master’s writing talent.

Bulgakov contributed a lot to his work catch phrases. One of them reads: “Follow me, my reader! Who told you that there is no real, true, eternal love? ... I will show you such love! " And he succeeds. Against the backdrop of intriguing plots taking place in two different time spaces, the love of the Master and Margarita develops. However, it is inextricably linked with the events of a thousand years ago, when, under the Roman prefect of Judeus, the best and most worthy of people was executed. This is the story of the Master's novel, which is rejected by the publisher. And it was precisely this situation that the mysterious professor, aka the “prince of darkness,” appeared to correct.

Woland has lived on earth for many thousands of years in a row and he knows that the Master’s work is true. He witnessed the friendship of Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri, as well as the execution of the latter, so he decided to help the talented writer in an age of injustice. The author paints a contradictory picture of Moscow society in the 1930s. There are many absolutely careless writers working in the House of Writers, while the worthy work of the Master is rejected and not published. As a result, he ends up in psychiatric clinic, and Margarita is left alone. Ready to sell her soul to the “devil,” she goes to great lengths to save her loved one.

Then Woland invites her to the ball of evil spirits, where she should be the queen and receive the most scary killers and criminals of all times. Even this does not scare the heroine. She willingly agrees to attend such an event and behave like the hostess of the ball. When it came to real, eternal and all-consuming love, M. A. Bulgakov did not classify it either in the category of light or in the category of darkness. He compared it only to life and death. Therefore, all means were good to achieve this wonderful feeling. In his novel he turned main character both a witch and the queen of Satan's ball, and all in order to save her loved one and be with him.

Love in such a manifestation evoked respect even from the seasoned Woland. Therefore, despite the fact that the heroine used her right of a single request to save a woman unknown to her but in need of help, he gave her another such right, using which Margarita returned her Master. As a final test, he gave them eternal peace. Margarita did not leave her beloved there either. She boldly crossed the mortal line to stay with her beloved forever. There was another reason why Woland took these two with him. He realized that they had no place in a society where there were no high spiritual ideals.

What do we remember when we hear the name Mikhail Bulgakov? We remember the cozy home of the Turbins, Professor Preobrazhensky and his Sharik, “ Fatal eggs“, but still, first of all, the Master and his beloved – Margarita. But why? What does this novel have that other works don't? The answer is simple: everything is here. The novel is written like this, “As if the author, feeling in advance that this is his last piece, I wanted to put into it without reserve all the sharpness of my satirical eye, the unrestrained imagination, the power of psychological observation” (K. Simonov). This is a satirical novel, a novel about the essence of art and the fate of the artist. Here questions about eternal values ​​are understood: the question of good and evil, life and death, spirituality and lack of spirituality.
But still, for me, this is first and foremost a novel, a novel about true, faithful, eternal love.
Despite the fact that novels in most cases fully correspond to their title, and main theme the theme of love becomes in them, in the novel “The Master and
Margarita” the author touches on this topic only in the second part. I think,
Bulgakov does this in order to prepare the reader; for the author, love is not unambiguous, for him it is multifaceted.
In the novel, Bulgakov finds no place for hatred and despair. The hatred and revenge that Margarita is filled with, breaking windows of houses and drowning apartments, is most likely not revenge at all, but cheerful hooliganism, an opportunity to fool around, which the Devil gives her.
The key phrase of the novel is the phrase standing right in the middle of it, noticed by many, but not explained by anyone: “Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in the world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out! Follow me, my reader, and only me, and I will show you such love!” + The author of the novel, creating the main characters, endows them with extraordinary sensuality and hearts filled with love for each other, but he also separates them. He sends Woland, Satan, to help them. But why does it seem that such a feeling as love is helped by evil spirits? Bulgakov does not divide this feeling into light or dark, does not classify it into any category. This is an eternal feeling, love is the same force, as “eternal” as life or death, like light or darkness. Love can be vicious, but it can also be divine; love in all its manifestations remains love first and foremost. Bulgakov calls love true, true and eternal, but does not call it heavenly, divine or heavenly; he relates it to eternity, like heaven or hell.
All-forgiving and all-redeeming love - this is the love he writes about
Bulgakov. Forgiveness overtakes one and all, inevitably, like fate: the checkered guy, known under the name of Corrvieve - Fagot, and the young man, the page who was the cat Behemoth, and the procurator of Judea - Pontius Pilate, and the romantic Master, and his beloved. The writer shows his readers that earthly love is heavenly love, that appearance, clothing, era, time, place of life and place of eternity can change, but the love that overtakes you once strikes you in the very heart and forever. And love remains unchanged at all times and in all eternities that we are destined to experience. She endows the heroes of the novel with the energy of forgiveness, the one that Master Yeshua displays in the novel and for which Pontius has been yearning for two thousand years.
Pilate. Bulgakov managed to penetrate into the human soul and saw that it is the place where earth and sky meet. And then the author invents a place of peace and immortality for loving and devoted hearts: “Here is your home, here is your eternal home,” says Margarita, and somewhere far away she is echoed by the voice of another poet who has walked this road to the end: Death and Time reign on earth, - Don’t call them rulers; Everyone, spinning, disappears into the darkness, Only the sun of love is motionless.
Love is what gives the book mystery and uniqueness. Poetic love, earthly, carnal and romantic love is the force that drives all the events of the novel. For her sake, everything changes and everything happens.
Woland and his retinue bow before her, Yeshua looks at her from his light, and admires her. Love at first sight, tragic and eternal as the world. It is this kind of love that the heroes of the novel receive as a gift, and it helps them survive and find eternal happiness, eternal peace.

The themes of Bulgakov's novel are very diverse; it raises the theme of mercy, responsibility, cowardice, and also reveals the theme of love and fidelity. She is embodied in the images of the Master and Margarita. Love is the brightest, most trembling and tender feeling that a person experiences. It inspires, gives strength and inspiration, hope for a bright future. For the sake of love people do heroic deeds, love makes you overcome your fears and become better. Bulgakov's novel shows omnipotent, strong, immortal and all-conquering love.

The characters after whom the novel is named appear before readers only in the second part of the work. This part, dedicated to the relationship between the Master and Margarita, begins with words that today have become an aphorism: “Follow me, reader! Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in the world? May the liar's vile tongue be cut out. Follow me, my reader, and only me, and I will show you such love!”

The master, talking about his love for Margarita, says: “Love jumped out in front of us, like a killer jumps out of the ground in an alley, and struck us both at once! That’s how lightning strikes, that’s how a Finnish knife strikes!”

Margarita had everything: big and beautiful house, housekeeper, loving husband, she was wealthy, she could buy whatever she wanted, but she had no happiness, no love. Having met the Master then, she realized that this was the person she was missing in her life. With him she found true happiness, the Master found his muse in her, thanks to her support he wrote his novel about Pontius Pilate. But because of this novel, he found himself persecuted in Moscow. Having lost the Master, Margarita lost the meaning of life, for his sake she made a deal with the devil, agreed to hold a ball with Satan, for the sake of her beloved Margarita was ready to do anything. This love became the Master’s reward for all his suffering and trials. The Master and Margarita are not destined to be happy in this world, so Woland decides that they will find peace in another life. Together they die and find peace.

Despite all the strength and loyalty of the love of the main characters, their feelings cannot be called ideal. Both heroes are sinners. Margarita entered into a relationship with the Master while she was married, she also sold her soul to the devil, this act also does not characterize her with positive side. The Master's sin is that he fell into despondency, gave up, abandoned his destiny. For this reason, the heroes do not go to heaven after death; Woland grants them peace.

But still, the love of Margarita and the Master is an example of real, eternal, omnipotent love, for which you want to live.

Love was and remains relevant in the works of almost all writers of Russian literature. Of course, Mikhail Bulgakov with his outstanding creation “The Master and Margarita” is no exception to this rule. The theme of love in his work is considered, and it deserves careful study by numerous readers of this work. I also became interested in this theme of love in the work. It is for this reason that I decided to consider such interesting topic V this work.
As far as I personally understand, the key love aspect of this work is the relationship between the Master and Margarita. What strikes me most about their relationship is the strong and extremely sacrificial love Margaritas to the Master. She always believed in him and tried to help him in all matters.
For every person, a woman’s love and faith in his strength are extremely important. It helps you work, move forward, set goals and confidently achieve them. However, it is worth noting that this love was mutual, and the Master also extremely loved Margarita with all his heart. This becomes clear when he talks about how they met. This story once again confirms the fact that the Master loved Margarita very much. It can be said that the love between the Master and Margarita made both of these people purer, capable of overcoming difficulties and problems in their own lives.
As for the author's view of love as a phenomenon, consideration of this aspect is also very interesting. In particular, it can be noted that for the writer this amazing phenomenon is presented as something permanent, unchangeable, like a constant. That is why it is almost impossible to conclude from the entire text of the work that the Master or Margarita will suddenly stop loving each other. However, at the same time, there is a strong impression that they can hardly be truly happy, because there are many problems in life that prevent them from truly enjoying each other. That is why it seems quite logical to conclude that these two people can become truly happy only if they are destined to meet after death.
Many will probably say that love is not a key aspect in this work. However, I can hardly agree with this statement. It seems to me personally that a lot of things in Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” are devoted to this wonderful phenomenon. Moreover, without the love of the Master and Margarita, he simply would not have anything to write about, he would have lost his key feature. I believe this novel is in many ways a depiction of true love.

The novel “The Master and Margarita” closely intertwines themes of history and religion, creativity and everyday life. But the most important place in the novel is occupied by the love story of the master and Margarita. This storyline adds tenderness and poignancy to the work. Without the theme of love, the image of the master would not be possible to fully reveal. Unusual genre works - a novel within a novel - allows the author to simultaneously distinguish and combine the biblical and lyrical lines, develop them fully in two parallel worlds.

Fatal meeting

The love between the master and Margarita flared up as soon as they saw each other. “Love jumped out between us, like a killer jumps out of the ground... and struck us both at once!” - this is what the master tells Ivan Bezdomny in the hospital, where he ends up after the critics rejected his novel. He compares the surging feelings to lightning or a sharp knife: “That’s how lightning strikes! This is how amazing a Finnish knife is!”

The master first saw his future beloved on a deserted street. She attracted his attention because she “carried in her hands disgusting, alarming yellow flowers" These mimosas became a signal to the master that his muse was in front of him, with loneliness and fire in his eyes.

Both the master and the unhappy wife of a rich but unloved husband, Margarita, were completely alone in this world before their strange meeting. As it turns out, the writer was previously married, but he doesn’t even remember his name ex-wife, about which she doesn’t keep any memories or warmth in her soul. And he remembers everything about Margarita, the tone of her voice, the way she spoke when she came, and what she did in his basement room.

After their first meeting, Margarita began to come to her lover every day. She helped him work on the novel, and she herself lived from this work. For the first time in her life, her inner fire and inspiration found their purpose and application, just as the masters listened and understood for the first time, because from the first meeting they spoke as if they had parted yesterday.

Completing the master's novel became a test for them. But already born love he was destined to pass this and many other tests in order to show the reader that real kinship of souls exists.

The Master and Margarita

The true love of the master and Margarita in the novel is the embodiment of the image of love in Bulgakov’s understanding. Margarita is not just a favorite and loving woman, she is the muse, she is the author’s inspiration and his own pain, materialized in the image of Margarita the witch, who in righteous anger destroys the apartment of an unjust critic.

The heroine loves the master with all her heart, and seems to breathe life into his small apartment. My inner strength and she gives energy to her lover’s novel: “she chanted and loudly repeated individual phrases... and said that this novel was her life.”

The refusal to publish the novel, and later the devastating criticism of the unknown passage that ended up in print, equally painfully wounds both the master and Margarita. But, if the writer is broken by this blow, then Margarita is overcome by insane rage, she even threatens to “poison Latunsky.”

But the love of these lonely souls continues to live its own life.

Test of love

In the novel "The Master and Margarita" love stronger than death, stronger than the master’s disappointment and Margarita’s anger, stronger than Woland’s tricks and the condemnation of others.

This love is destined to pass through the flames of creativity and the cold ice of critics, it is so strong that it cannot find peace even in heaven.

The characters are very different, the master is calm, thoughtful, he has a soft character and a weak, vulnerable heart. Margarita, on the other hand, is strong and sharp; more than once Bulgakov uses the word “flame” to describe her. Fire burns in her eyes and brave, strong heart. She shares this fire with the master, she breathes this flame into the novel, and even the yellow flowers in her hands resemble lights against the backdrop of a black coat and slushy spring. The master embodies reflection, thought, while Margarita embodies action. She is ready to do anything for the sake of her beloved, and sell her soul, and become the queen of the devil's ball.

The strength of the feelings of the master and Margarita is not only in love. They are so close spiritually that they simply cannot exist separately. Before their meeting, they did not experience happiness; after parting, they would never have learned to live separately from each other. That is why, probably, Bulgakov decides to end the lives of his heroes, in return giving them eternal peace and solitude.

Conclusions

In the background biblical history about Pontius Pilate, the love story of the master and Margarita seems even more lyrical and poignant. This is the love for which Margarita is ready to give her soul, since she is empty without her loved one. Being insanely lonely before they met, the characters gain understanding, support, sincerity and warmth. This feeling is stronger than all the obstacles and bitterness that befalls the fate of the main characters of the novel. And it is precisely this that helps them find eternal freedom and eternal peace.

Descriptions of love experiences and the history of relationships between the main characters of the novel can be used by 11th grade students when writing an essay on the topic “The Love of the Master and Margarita”

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