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Darkness at Noon | Summary and Analysis: Part 2—The Second Hearing—Chapters 1-3

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Gletkin: the Party official who takes over the interrogation of Rubashov from Ivanov

Summary
On the fifth day of his imprisonment, Rubashov makes a diary entry. In it, he looks back on the Party's neo-Machiavellian nature and the fact that it is "sailing without ballast." Its morality brings No. 1 to kill some agriculturalists because they disagreed with No. 1 on the issue of proper manure. In this atmosphere, mistakes are paid with death, and lies are often better than truth. However, Party members cannot...


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