The Redemption Theme Of"Master And Margarita"

Bulgakov is a famous Russian novelist and dramatist and even acknowledged as the "20th century Gogol". He wrote many novels and plays and was noted for his full-length fiction Master and Margarita. It took him12years to write and modify the fiction which integrated biblical stories and secretive fantasy with realism sarcasm. This fiction has always been regarded as his representative work with original writing devices, unique characteristics and numerous themes, thus is concerned and discussed heatedly by scholars and critics from home and abroad. Bulgakov and his Master and Margarita are different from other contemporary works in two perspectives. First in content, he wrote something that wasn’t written or wasn’t allowed to or others feared to write. Standing beyond the Red Genre, Bulgakov observed, contemplated and composed with peculiar subjects and vivid characters. Then in writing device, going against the writing principles demanded by Soviet in that era, i.e. the writing principles of socialist realism, he pursued the magical realism to compose his works.This research expounds on group redemption and individual redemption discussed in Master and Margarita and tries to find the way that Bulgakov has probed for human redemption with the use of text analysis, social psychological analysis and comparative analysis. It is the way that the terminal redemption of human as a whole has to be realized through every individual in an era that beliefs lose, that people no longer revere God and that the whole world become manic.The thesis mainly divides itself into five parts including introduction, chapter1, chapter2, chapter3and conclusion. The introduction part is primarily about the current status of the research from home and abroad, the significance of subject and research method of the paper, the definition of conceptions related to redemption and the significance of magic writing style for redemption. In Chapter1, it talks about the reflections of group redemption in the text, including the characteristics of the group, phenomenon in the group and the keynote of group redemption. The author didn’t refer to group redemption directly, yet write about the performance of the group. In chapter2, it chiefly discusses the reflection of individual redemption in the text. The representatives who accomplish individual redemption are Pontius Pilate, Ivan, Master and other individuals of people in Moscow. Only the realization of individual redemption can make the final target of group redemption come true. In Chapter3, it explores the reason of Bulgakov’s redemption theory and analyzes the resource of Bulgakov’s conception of individual redemption and group redemption from three perspectives:tradition of intellectuals, background of era and religious beliefs. The conclusion part generally summarizes the chief content of the thesis, clarifies the importance of redemption problem. Whether individual redemption or group redemption have warning and referential significance for the era which Bulgakov lived and the contemporary times.