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{{quote|''I am part of that force which wills forever evil and works forever good.''<br />
 
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''Would you remove all trees and living things from the world to realise your fantasy of basking in naked light?''|'''Woland'''}}
 
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* [[Intellectual Animal]]: Behemoth, though he is actually a demon in the form of a large black cat.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]: Woland says it most blatantly in the first chapter, but the story of Yeshua itself suggests that the Gospels are portrayed in the novel as highly fictionalized [[Memetic Mutation]] of real events, which are themselves revealed through the Master's novel. Matthew Levi, in particular, is likely supposed to become Matthew the Evangelist, and Yeshua himself asserts this:
{{quote| ''"No, no, Hegemon," the arrested man said, straining all over in his wish to convince, "there's one with a goatskin parchment who follows me, follows me and keeps writing all the time. But once I peeked into this parchment and was horrified. I said decidedly nothing of what's written there. I implored him: "Burn your parchment, I beg you!" But he tore it out of my hands and ran away."''}}
* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Korovyev and Behemoth.
* [[Lou Cypher]]: In German folk legend, Woland is an old nickname for the Devil, and Mephistopheles in Goethe's ''Faust'' goes one time by this moniker.