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.
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sean rated Haweswater: 5 stars
sean rated An Anonymous Girl: 4 stars
sean rated The picture of Dorian Gray: 5 stars
The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July …
sean rated Revolutionary Russia 18911991: 3 stars
sean rated Who Rules the World?: 4 stars
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and …
sean rated Outgrowing God: 3 stars
sean rated Into the Diaspora Wilderness: 4 stars
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Copyright (c) Yuval Noah Harari 2011 ISBN 9780099590088 (isbn 978-0-09-959008-8)
sean rated Around the World in Eighty Days: 4 stars
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep …
sean rated Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance: 5 stars
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
From the world's foremost intellectual activist, here is an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic …
sean rated Modern Clssics Road To Wigan Pier: 3 stars
Modern Clssics Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in …
sean rated Burmese Days (Collins Classics): 4 stars
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.