Reviews for The Moral dimensions of international conduct

The average rating for The Moral dimensions of international conduct based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-26 00:00:00 Joe Tang I admit that I loved reading Wuthering Heights, though I’m not really sure why. It tells the story of two families over two generations and the wretched vengeance of the scorned lover Heathcliff that destroys the fabric of their lives until his death. I can see why a lot of people would find the story set on the moors of England boring. It has a small cast of characters, the setting never changes, and the story’s main events are only relational. No one ever goes anywhere. But I loved reading about the sheltered, localized life of the Earnshaws and the Lintons on the moors. I loved the relationships between the servants and the masters, who weren’t of particularly high class. I loved the ridiculously high-flying words of devotion from Heathcliff and the opposition of his savagely cruel wit. I hated his unrelenting, unrepentant cruelty. I hated Catherine’s absurd shallowness and Linton’s peevishness. The maid servant and narrator Nelly held the story together, and I enjoyed her as the one voice of moral clarity. I loved watching the children grow up and how their interactions evolved. I wish there had been a little bit more moral clarity and condemnation for Heathcliff. Nelly does censure him, but the end is pretty ambiguous. Though, I am glad that it all ended well for the remaining family members. So why is this a good book? What makes any book good? I like a book to have engaging characters and at least a good moral. Yeah, I’m big on the moral. So Wuthering Heights, I liked it, but why? The moral wasn’t that great. So have you read this odd book? What did you think of it?

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-10 00:00:00 Andrew Borowski I like the way that this series shows the progression of criticism over decades and shows the conversation taking place among scholars. I love Wuthering Heights and have read it many times (it may be the novel I have read the most times), so few of the ideas here were especially new to me, but I really enjoyed reading various takes on the novel. One thing that does give me pause is that Bloom attributes both The Madwoman in the Attic and the section from it that he includes to Sandra Gilbert alone instead of also crediting Susan Gubar. IDK why.