George Orwell: 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics) (2021, HarperCollins Publishers Limited)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction …
Review of '1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics)' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
There is much to love about this story, and the morals and messages Orwell tried to illustrate with it, but the use of <spoiler>rape/sexual violence imagery</spoiler>, although maybe used to illustrate the extent of this world, has a very undesirable effect in that it seems to normalise the idea that ideas of <spoiler>rape</spoiler> are commonplace and should be embraced.