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The Master and Margarita
- Lady Ronit
- Sep 11, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Oct 18, 2024
Mikhail Bulgakov, 1973
Sometimes reconciling with evil is the only path to goodness. Perhaps the only one. The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) presents an inverted morality. Doing evil is inevitable, and what we consider unworthy is the only path to salvation and happiness. A person experiencing evil loses trust in their own thoughts. They don't know whether the reflections they experience and the images appearing to their eyes are already a supernatural force or simply schizophrenia.
The possession Margarita experiences is not ruinous for her. She makes a pact with Wolant that takes nothing from her. The endless, unconquerable love that connects her with the Master, love that came at the wrong time, is worth the sin. But can the struggle for a beloved person, which brings happiness, be considered a sin? How often do we surrender to the rule of evil; is what we commonly consider evil truly not good? How do we know that evil is bad, if it doesn't bring us destructive suffering? Perhaps, the world is entirely different than we perceive it. Maybe evil is good, and good is evil.
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