Hare-lip (Young Kieffer) Character Analysis in Darkness at Noon

Another fellow prisoner, who seems to be especially interested in Rubashov from the start, though Rubashov isn’t certain why. Eventually, it becomes clear that Hare-lip is the son of Professor Kieffer, an old friend of Rubashov’s, and Hare-lip is attempting to lighten his own sentence by accusing Rubashov of plotting to kill No. 1. Hare-lip is described as young, cowardly, and desperate to the extent that he is willing to do whatever he can to save is own life. In the end, his accusation ends up being insufficient to save him.

Hare-lip (Young Kieffer) Quotes in Darkness at Noon

The Darkness at Noon quotes below are all either spoken by Hare-lip (Young Kieffer) or refer to Hare-lip (Young Kieffer). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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“Rubashov laughed at my father, and repeated that he was a fool and a Don Quixote. Then he declared that No. 1 was no accidental phenomenon, but the embodiment of a certain human characteristic—namely, of an absolute belief in the infallibility of one’s own conviction, from which he drew the strength for his complete unscrupulousness.”

Related Characters: Hare-lip (Young Kieffer) (speaker), Nicholas Salmanovitch Rubashov, Professor Kieffer

Page Number and Citation: 208

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