Event Title
Illusion, Morality, and Reality in The Master and Margarita
Presentation Type
Oral and/or Visual Presentation
Presenter Major(s)
Russian Studies, English
Mentor Information
Christine Rydel, rydelc@gvsu.edu
Department
Modern Languages and Literatures
Location
Kirkhof Center 2215
Start Date
13-4-2011 4:00 PM
End Date
13-4-2011 4:30 PM
Keywords
Arts, Culture, Ethics, Freedom and Control, Historical Perspectives, Human Journey, Philosophy/ Literature, Religion, War and Peace, World Perspective
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.
Illusion, Morality, and Reality in The Master and Margarita
Kirkhof Center 2215
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.