berlioz is the head of . berlioz brushes off woland's prophecy of his death, only to have it come true just pages later in the novel. ivan, the young poet "homeless", tries to chase and capture the gang and warn of their evil. this lands him in a lunatic asylum, where he meets the master (named faust in the drafts and margins of the manuscript, but never in the finally published version). led to despair by the rejection of his novel about pontius pilate and christ, the master burns his manuscript and turns his back on the "real" world, including his devoted lover, margarita.