The Religious Meaning Of "the Master And Margarita"

Enjoying a revival in the "regress" tide of Russian literature, M.A.Bulgakov (1891-1940) is widely accepted as one of the classical writers and playwrights in Russian literature. His novel Master and Magaritte published twenty years after his death is the masterpiece that he had revised for six times during the last twelve years in his life. Chinese and foreign scholars are so stricken by its charm that they praise it as an unusual book of sarcasm and fantasy.Though regarded as a novel with magic quality, it is a religious novel to some degree, or at least a novel defending for religious truth, which is displayed in the thought and belief to Jesus, in the exposure of the answer to the old problems such as life and death, good and evil and so on, and in the strong moral concern to the confidence that good will triumph evil and life will defeat death.Bulgakov not only makes a mythical interpretation to the biblical stories, but also has a bold and special parody to the true Christian world, whose main purpose is not for the modernist overthrow of traditional consciousness, but for the profound physicological thought of the existence of God.The anfractuous characters, plots and space-time structure of Master and Magaritte reflect the author's thinking on religious philosophy. Its deconstruction upon biblical stories and mythological romantic plots are based on the background of western Christian culture. The mysticism and profound logical nexus give readers and researchers reasons to see the art essence from various aspects.This essay tries to explore the background and origin for the religious and mythological culture from several aspects such as the factor of fiend, the search for the image of Jesus, the deconstruction of the biblical stories etc..