Summary Of Darkness At Noon By Rubashov

In this book review, will be focused on the quote “the end justifies the means.” how Rubashov did many cruel acts to others in order to rise up in ranks and to help the Communist party and No. 1. Though eventually he realizes much too late that this ideology is wrong, all his flashbacks are connected to the quote because each flashback showed how he hurt people physically and emotionally, yet Rubashov never thought he was wrong or that he was doing something immoral, it was more as something that needed to be done, since he believed that it will help the Communist from reaching its goals. Eventually toward the end he realizes that the same method he did to others is the same method being done to him, which eventually leads to his execution.

Koestler, Arthur. Darkness at Noon. New York: Scribner, 1968.

Rubashov was part of the Old Bolsheviks party or in other words the old fashioned Communist party, he was part of the group where they forced everyone with their own communist ideology on how the government should run and how people should live, to the point of using violent methods from assassinations to torture. Which eventually now that the Old Communist have done what was necessary in order to lead into that ideology, they are no longer needed. We never

Rubashov has two weeks to confess, but on the day that his time is up, he finally seems to break after witnessing and listening to an old roommate from the past, Michael Bogrov, who do to orders of Gletkin, Bogrov was intentionally dragged in front of his cell, in order to break him emotionally which worked, especially when Bogrov managed to say Rubashov’s name while being dragged