In the last lecture of “Totalitarian Novels,” Larry P. Arnn guided his students through Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon.
We saw the protagonist, Rubashov, who has been a Bolshevik since the Revolution, imprisoned and interrogated for supposed crimes against the Party.
In Lecture 6, Arnn discuss Rubashov’s dilemma with my students.
He fears what the Party has become and abhors the ruthlessness of the men it is producing, exemplified by his interrogator Gletkin.
In the end, however, Rubashov decides to confess to his invented crimes and accept execution. He chooses loyalty to the Party over his own life. Why?
My students and I debate that in today’s lecture, available now here:
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