The Master and Margarita Lesson Plan

Why does Margarita ask for the blue handkerchief to be taken away from Frieda? What pushes her to make this request?

In "The Great Ball at Satan's" Margarita is taken by Frieda's story, and in "The Extraction of the Master" Frieda comes back into play because of Margarita's "light-minded" temperament (283). While Margarita does care about Frieda's fate, there is one indication that Margarita might not be fully in control of her request to Woland. The narrator states that "someone's importunate, imploring voice cried" Frieda in Margarita's ears, possibly indicating that Frieda herself is intervening telepathically, pushing Margarita to use this as her one request (282)....