Wielding the Sword of Truth

There is that famous saying that write is mightier than make. A plebeian interpretation to this report goes like this a pen is a better weapon, may it be for offense or defense, than both weapon for destruction. But another interpretation is also apt for the account the pen of the writer, and the railroad siding it produces, shall be able to withstand both ruffle up from every weapon, however destructive, that tries to exterminate or repress the ideas it tries to share to the knowledge domain.Throughout the world, by dint of countries experiences of political turmoil and all the civil repression that comes along with most of it, cadence only seems to lend more and more credibility to this statement. Didnt you go to bed that manuscripts dont burn? (Bulgakov, 1967), this is a much-quoted line from Mikhail Bulgakovs The police captain and Margarita. It was spoken by Satan (in the person of a foreign professor/magician named Woland) to The cut through, a writer who burn ed his completed novel in an effort to keep the Soviet composeities from reading it.Being matchless of Bulgakovs main theme in the novel, it highlights the important role of writers observing and makeup about the social situation, amidst all the threat of a repressive and exacting government activity, with the object of sharing to others what the writer has seen and not serious putting it away, neer to be read, out of fear of arrest or tortureto frame the light of freedom in the darkness of an unfree world. This theme was express to be based on Bulgakovs personal experience of enthusiastic the early version of The Master and Margarita in fear of punishment from Soviet authorities.Thus it can be said that The Master has some autobiographical atom from the author itself. The period when the novel was set corresponds to the time that Bulgakov wrote it 1930s, with the communist Bolsheviks govern over all of Soviet Russia, and Stalin as the head of the said view party and o f the country. This period was characterized by severe government control, not just on the economy, but on almost every move of the citizen of its country.And period in this time Russia is deemed to deliver good results, as it is considered as one of the superpowers of the world, internally, the system is mired with conflict and threat-and-control-subjected citizens. Those people who challenge the status quo and the governments way of running the country are immediately taken into custody and sent to psikhushka where they are to be imprisoned as to backtrack them from polluting other peoples minds. Thus, to avoid imprisonment and torture, several writers, Bulgakov included, chose to destroy their deviant literary works.However, in writing the second draft of the novel, and with it having the abovementioned theme, it seems that Bulgakov has completed the futility and repugnancy of destroying ones own work in favor of a trouble-free existence. This is reflected in the much-quoted line and in Wolands returning of The Masters burned novel. The scene and the theme corresponding to it signify the authors revised stand that a person whose eyes had been open and exposed to the truth has then the responsibility of spreading this truth to the society, no matter how much that person is to be oppressed.That person has to arouse the courageousness to bump through the walls that the oppressors build before them because he/she has been entrusted with a great(p) responsibility. It is cowardly for that person to deny the world of his/her knowledge since with it the person denies the world the chance to know what they ought to know. At the same time it is cowardly, destroying ones own truth-revealing work is also futile since even though the output has been destroyed, thus removing some(prenominal) implicating physical evidence of deviance, the idea is still on the persons, and perhaps of other peoples minds.Bulkagov, upon making the statement about the futility of ma nuscript burning, sends a hopeful and encouraging message, most in particular to writers to shed their fears and rally for truth even amidst the threat of retribution from the authorities who seek to repress the truth by repressing the writers and the peoples ideas. Knowing the truth, it is said, is a privilege of everybody. Therefore, those who have initially been exposed to it have to extend this privilege to othersthe truth becomes their responsibility.And since this world of ours there are people who try to deny this privilege to persons other than themselvesthose autocrats who usually believe that common people deserve to know only what they choose to divulge, however lesser a peek to the whole picture it isthe truth-knowing person, in this case, the writer necessitate to whip out his pen and use it as the weapon that shall bodge the repression of truth. True, the pen is mightier than the sword. But the pen is only as strong as the courage and nerve of the writer that wield s it.By the bye, a pen is only a pen a written paper is still only a paper easily destroyed by fire or any other means, but the idea and observation of a writer, or any person for that matter, remains his/hers aloneirrepressible, and once acknowledged, indestructible by any controlling authority. Unless the writer sharpens his/her pen with courage for the revelation of truth, however mournful to say, in that case, the pen shall forever lose to the swing, no, even from the mere nominal head of the sword of repression.