Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Animal Farm by George Orwell

309 reviews

amanda_1i's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Slavery, Alcohol, War

Minor: Blood

yoinky_sploinky's review against another edition

4.75

informative slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

---

I can understand why this book is a classic and still holds some relevance today 

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Violence

pineconecan's review against another edition

4.75

dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gaslighting, Classism

Moderate: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

koala2ana's review against another edition

4.5

dark informative reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

---

The revolution has succeeded. But what now? How do you move towards a “better society”?

Through this book, Orwell criticizes political maneuvers and totalitarian rule, using animals to explain what humans do. The author portrays the way a revolutions can go full circle — coming to the same point it started from. Just the face of power is changed.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Gaslighting

Moderate: Slavery, Blood, Murder

Minor: Suicide, Grief

un_savoury's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Gaslighting, Classism

Minor: Alcohol

chloe1234567890's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Nothing much happened and it was very politcal. I can see why he chose to use animals instead of humans. The narrator (Philip Battley) is a legend.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death

Moderate: Death, Slavery, Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Suicide, Alcohol

melist6's review against another edition

5.0

challenging reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Gaslighting, Classism

Minor: Slavery

reixma's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

---

A story written between 1944 and 1945. A story that is still relevant to today.

Leading a rebellion against those who restrict what you can do, what you can say, think, and be. 
To be led by those who you assume has your best interests.
To have new rules set and everyone agrees to.
To find there are minor exceptions that do not benefit you.
To find others brought in who know little, if anything, about the past, and so be led blindly according to what the people in charge say.
To find you are led by those who you rebelled against in the first place, only to be in one space behind where you started.

So, what's my review of the book? 
Mandatory reading. 
Don't let this book fall by the wayside. 
This shows what happens when greed takes over, and those in power fear losing that power. What happens when people in power realise how much power they don't have against the people, and so keep them in the dark so they never learn that.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation

Minor: Suicide

trackingjsreads's review against another edition

3.0

dark informative medium-paced

---

Rise of a totalitarian regime through the allegory of a farm.
Better than 1984

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Moderate: Blood

kurenai7's review against another edition

2.5

informative reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Violence