Octopus

I am finding more and more each chapter I am beginning to enjoy this novel and actually laugh at a few things. ( okay a lot)
In Chapter 13, pages 162 and 163 is the Master describing a depression that resembles a octupus that begins growing on him. This illustration was intriguing as I had never heard of it being octupus-like. Many authors would use things like black cloud, or plague to describe depression or a sort of mental illness but not Bulgakov. With further research, I discovered that octopus have a toxin in their tentacles that numbs their prey so that they are unbale to fight back. Secondly, when a octopus begins to devour its prey it billows out like a parachute and then covers all of it. In a video, a marine biologist showed that the crab a octopus had just eaten was entirely cleaned out from the inside. How creative is that word-play! Depression defintly mimmicks the qualities of a octopus and this helps us understand the depth of his mental illeness and the toil it took on the Master's lover. Depression numbs a person to the point where nothing is appeasing and there is a unpresidented feeling of hopelessness. Also it covers one completely emcompassing whoever the victim is in complete darkness and then devours all that is inside beginning with the heart. The Master felt just that as it slowly was watching him in his sleep, haunting him.

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