History in Vogue discussion

Margarita is invited to the Devil's midnight ball, where Woland offers her the chance to become a witch with supernatural powers. She is anointed hostess, and welcomes the dark celebrities of human history as they arrive from Hell at his side. For this experience, Satan offers to grant Margarita her deepest wish. She chooses to liberate the Master and live a poverty-stricken life with him.

The Devil and his cohorts leave as Moscow still burns. Because the Master and Margarita did not lose their faith in humanity, they are granted peace in a purgatory like existence, but are denied enlightenment.