Losing One's Head

After our class discussion outside last week, I couldn't stop thinking about the significance of character's losing their heads. I kept asking what the significance of it was. There was so much insight to that given by Brannen and others during class, I thought I might continue to elaborate and share thoughts on that.

Someone loses their head in this story when fear begins to rule their rational. When they lose their head, they also lose their rational faculties, as Jeremy mentioned. Their ability to think, reason, which is what previously led them to deny the supernatural. Yet the irony lies in the fact that the supernatural (Satan/Woland)  is precisely what predicted/caused them to lose their head.

Is the writer trying to make the point that these characters lose their heads when they misuse it? By misusing it, I mean use their rational faculties to disprove the supernatural rather that to affirm it.


Just a thought as to what the writer's intention may be.

P. S. Commented on Brannen's!