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This is a 5 page paper discussing the references of dreams and the supernatural in Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” and Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain”. Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” and Thomas Mann’s “The Magic Mountain” both contain references to dream sequences to allow the characters to escape or mask the reality of life which surrounds them. In “The Master and Margarita”, Bulgakov uses dreams sequences and references to supernatural elements to allow the characters to speak about the underground world of the secret police. As characters are taken for questioning, the details of the abductions by “them” are made possible by the unreality and the distance provided by dreams. In addition, references to the supernatural such as “the Devil” also invoke memories of ancient taboos in society which are known to be punished. Mann’s central character Hans in “The Magic Mountain” has various dreams, daydreams and “vision quests” which allow the character to escape the routine and reality of his life. Already escaping somewhat to the sanatorium in the mountains, Hans has drug and fever induced dreams in which he gains more insight into the actions of man and offers him more freedom and confidence in his own decisions in life.
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characters to escape or mask the reality of life which surrounds them. In "The Master and Margarita", Bulgakov uses dreams sequences and references to supernatural elements to allow the characters
to speak about the underground world of the secret police. As characters are taken for questioning, the details of the abductions by "them" are made possible by the unreality and
the distance provided by dreams. In addition, references to the supernatural such as "the Devil" also invoke memories of ancient taboos in society which are known to be punished. Manns
central character Hans in "The Magic Mountain" has various dreams, daydreams and "vision quests" which allow the character to escape the routine and reality of his life. Already escaping somewhat
to the sanatorium in the mountains, Hans has drug and fever induced dreams in which he gains more insight into the actions of man and offers him more freedom and
confidence in his own decisions in life. In Mikhail Bulgakovs "The Master and Margarita" elements of the supernatural are used to mask specific
references to factors within the oppressive Soviet life such as the secret police. The references to the Devil in the text are meant to make the readers hesitate and ask
themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or overlapped with references to the supernatural used to mask
actual events similar to how people living within Russia in the 1920s and 1930s when this was written had to live safely without fear of repercussion regarding statements they made
or references they had heard about (Russian Language Journal, 1984). The characters within the work also have to hesitate and decide for themselves when references to the supernatural world
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