The teacher and Margarita the devil visits Moscow

The novel "The Master and Margarita" embodies the Russian reality in the late 1930s when the author completed its composition and depicted the struggle of evil with good, and the victory of the authority of party officials and corrupt merchants in trade institutions, informers, and the men of the "harsh Gulag." Its realistic events portray the reality since 1928 when the author began recording its first texts, which he burned in 1930. But he regretted that and started rewriting it from memory in the following years, giving it different titles such as "Faryabonda's Madness" and "The Chancellor's Hoofer." The first chapters focused on narrating the events of the last day before the crucifixion of Christ, during his dialogue with the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. Bulgakov worked hard reviewing accurate sources about life in Jerusalem and the influence of the Jewish rabbis at that time. Nevertheless, he wrote in 1934 to his friend Pavel Popov: "Margarita, the cat, and flying are running in my mind...". Then the second path of the novel appeared, dedicated to the author's relationship with authority. But strangely, "truth" in revenge against those who wronged the poet–"the Master"–is undertaken by Satan and his minions, thus Bulgakov reaffirms Goethe's saying in Faust about Satan, who said: "I am part of the power that always wants to do evil but always does good." It is clear that Bulgakov wanted to say that Satan is always among us and issues his judgments as he pleases.