{"id":210,"date":"2018-03-27T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/?p=210"},"modified":"2018-03-27T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:46:53","slug":"questions-for-darkness-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/darkness-at-noon\/questions-for-darkness-at-noon\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions for Darkness at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>1.\u00a0 The motif of the &#8220;grammatical fiction&#8221; appears several times in\u00a0<i>Darkness at Noon<\/i>.\u00a0 What is meant by this?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2.\u00a0 What is the role of the individual in Koestler&#8217;s story?\u00a0 Who or what is the agent of historical change?\u00a0 Who is the revolution&#8217;s beneficiary, who receives its fruits, as it were?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>3.\u00a0 Please pay attention to body and mind, to the physical and the rational.\u00a0 What, if any, relationship is there between the two, and how is it made manifest (if at all!) in the narrative?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>4. Why does Rubashov give in to the show trial?\u00a0 What prevents him from using his superior intellect to denounce the party?\u00a0 Is it simply that the interrogations wear him down, or is it something more regarding the ideology of the revolution?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>5.\u00a0 Finally, who was right?\u00a0 Ivanov?\u00a0 Gletkin?\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"m_1588345195505902376gmail-m_-1332067549700173715gmail-il\">Rubashov<\/span>?\u00a0 Poor 402, in his lonely confinement?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More broadly:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A. Did the Russian revolution have to devour its own?\u00a0 Is this a process that has to happen in every revolution? Could the revolution survived without the purging of the &#8220;old-school?&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>B. If we (perhaps arbitrarily) divide the revolutionaries into moderates and hard-liners, who won out (thinking across multiple phases of the revolution)?\u00a0 Does the in-fighting of these groups follow similar patterns of other revolutions we\u2019ve studied?<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>C. How was the Russian Revolution affected by the shadow of France in 1789 (specifically, the effects of the Bolsheviks looking to avoid Thermidor)?\u00a0 How might the revolution have progressed differently if the Bolsheviks had not known about or cared about the French Revolution?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.\u00a0 The motif of the &#8220;grammatical fiction&#8221; appears several times in\u00a0Darkness at Noon.\u00a0 What is meant by this? 2.\u00a0 What is the role of the individual in Koestler&#8217;s story?\u00a0 Who or what is the agent of historical change?\u00a0 Who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/darkness-at-noon\/questions-for-darkness-at-noon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkness-at-noon","category-the-perils-of-ideology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/s18-psci274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}