![]() Immediately, Azazello appears beside her on the bench and starts a conversation. Margarita says this to herself as she watches Berlioz's funeral procession go by. "Really, I would pawn my soul to the devil to find out whether he is alive or dead." Chapter 19 However, the reference to Margarita as a witch is significant, as she will later become one. The use of the first person singular in the last sentence here establishes the narrator as an actual person with limits, rather than omniscient as he sometimes appears to be. The leitmotif "O gods, gods!" characteristic of Pilate and the Master appears here in the narrator's own language, as he speaks of Margarita's unhappiness. ![]() ![]() "Gods, gods! What did this woman need? This woman, in whose eyes there always flickered an enigmatic little spark? This witch with just the slightest cast in one eye, who had adorned herself that spring day with mimosa? I do not know." Chapter 19 ![]()
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