The Master and Margarita Essays

In her short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", Joyce Carol Oates utilizes a variety of literary devices to strengthen the story in its entirety. This short story is essentially about a 16-year-old girl named Connie and the conflict between her desire to be mature and her desire to remain an adolescent. Throughout the story, the audience sees this conflict through her words in addition to through her behavior. The audience is also introduced to Arnold Friend, a rather peculiar man

In Kathleen Karlyn’s third chapter of Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers, she states how Girl World is ambivalent. Not only is Girl World unruly because the films place female desire as a focal point in the film, thereby validating the existence of female desire, while also being manufactured by the ideologies of patriarchal and postfeminist cultures with female power stopping at basic normative femininity. The film The Devil Wears Prada (2006) finds itself in agreement with both of these ideas. On

IF the text had been written in a different time or place or language or a different audience, how might it differ? In Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photography, V-J Day kiss in Times Square, 1945 we see a United States navy soldier grabbing a female nurse giving her a kiss. The photographer was able to capture the celebration that followed in Times Square after the end of world war 2 which portrays the celebration that ensued in which two individuals shared. In the photograph we see the woman, a nurse

Margarita Engle's Margarita Engle grew up in Los Angeles but started a strong relationship with her mother's homeland in cuba over the long summers she spent there. She was trained as a botanist and agronomist before becoming a full-time poet. And she now lives in Central California, where she enjoys hiding in the wilderness to help train her husband’s search and rescue dog. Engles influenced society and promoted cuban life through her works The poet slave of cuba, The surrender tree, and

decision against his true nature to approve the execution of Yeshua, the man in whose innocence he had no doubt. The result of this choice was a permanent conflict inside Pontius Pilate caused by remorse. One can compare “The White Heron” to The Master and Margarita. And one can connect Sylvie to Pontius and the white heron to Yeshua. However, in the first story Sylvia appeared as a person who remained faithful to her choice, whereas in the second story Pontius betrayed his

If you could erase one person from human history, who would it be? Why? - 83 “Manuscripts don’t burn.” – The Devil, “Master and Margarita”. This quote most aptly summarizes the point I will be defending in this essay. History is shaped not by people, but by manuscripts – by ideas. These can’t develop independently – they are shaped by the world around them, by the trends and forces of history. If one considers all factors at play, their formation is a foregone conclusion. Martin Luther did not

LEON AGULYANSKY: “MIRACLES HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN IT IS “ON THE EDGE” During long-lasting journalistic practice, I’ve learned how to change the famous Biblical quote “There will be a day, and there will be food” a bit: “There will be a day, and there will be new meetings” Recently, during my trip to The Promised Land, I’ve got a present from the destiny – one more interesting meeting. My colleagues introduced me to a man widely known both in medical and literature circles of Israel. For many

Introduction Today’s society consist of a variety of different cultures. Each cultures has their own identity, customs, and beliefs. In my community we have several strong, family oriented cultures. The two that were chosen was the Hispanics community and the Haliwa-Saponi Native American community. It was very interesting to see that while this communities are different they share some strong similarities, such as family ties. Interviews I was able to conduct two individual interviews with