The Conflict Involving the Person and the State and the Grammatical Fiction in Darkness At Noon
“The Celebration denied the no cost will of an person-and at the very same time exacted his prepared self-sacrifice.” The clear contradiction of the above definition of the Communist celebration is depicts the conflict among the person and the State in Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon. Koestler’s protagonist Nicolas Salamanovich Rubashov, devout communist and former leader of the Communist celebration, falls victim to his personal method throughout the time of the Moscow trials. Accused and imprisoned for crimes he did not commit, Rubashov is forced to select among the ideology he has faithfully followed for the past forty years of his life, or a new identified sense of self, which he calls the “grammatical fiction”.