The human ethics people have in this society are similar, but not exactly same. Here is more suitable to say which character behaves more immoral than to say which one is more moral. Because the main idea of the Amsterdam is to reveal the hypocrisy of the middle class. All the characters in Amsterdam have their own immoralities and their excuses to do that.
Actually. Molly is the character who did the least immoral things in the novel. However, the most moral character in my mind is Clive. Molly died in the beginning of the book, all the experience about her we know depend on other’s memory. The Molly we know, live in the eyes of these people and reflect the ethics in their deep hearts. On the other hand, Clive is one of people memories good Molly and the person who first propose to end their life in Amsterdam, if they do something disobey theirs’ values. It indicated Clive has a good nature.
Then I want to talk about the immoralities Clive commits. When he considers about his work, he seed a woman and man arguing. At that time, maybe he can feel something uncommon, whereas he doesn’t think it deeply cause of his up-coming ideas. So he walks away. Then Vernon requires he to prove what he saw to the police office. Clive refuses. He is really stressful at that time and his spirit id not as same as the normal condition. I mean, Clive refuses Vernon’s request in the reason of his self-defense. He doesn’t want to do anything, except his work. Surely, for victims and most people, he doesn’t do anything he can to help others which maybe become a expression of lacking emotion, which is also awkward. Clive works for his dream a lot.
Go back to the title. As we all know, Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands which is a developed country and has good public safety. And we learnt Amsterdam is such open-mind city in the novel. Next we can understand a little bit of him. He has his pursuit and he try his best to get closer it. Nonetheless he is cowardice while he meets the illegal thing, he is insistence in his work.
Although he did immoral things, he still has ethic in his heart.
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