Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Animal Farm by George Orwell

154 reviews

quietlex's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Timeless. Unfortunately relevant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

winterwoodbooks's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Incest, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, Pandemic/Epidemic

rissleyva's review against another edition

4.75

informative reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Classism

goodbye_123's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty

erica_sads's review against another edition

5.0

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Read it in one day. Will probably never stop thinking about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Slavery, Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

eggfartz's review against another edition

3.75

dark informative reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, War, Classism

amaranth_wytch's review against another edition

3.75

fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Violence, Gaslighting, Classism

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Gun violence, Slavery, Police brutality, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

niles_reads's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The whole review

Genuinely one of the best books I’ve ever read (besides Bijeli klaun, which I’ve read years ago and it still impacts me today).

For a while I couldn’t understand what Communism was and, even though they don’t outright say it is, I’ve finally learned (Excuse my ignorance, we’ve only brushed through it in class). 

Through a fable story perspective, it was easy to digest. I easily followed along even with such a deep topic.

All the animals wanted was freedom, which they thought for the longest time was right there, until the very end. From how the pigs at the started added milk and apples to their meals, “not because of selfishness”, but because, “Milk and apples (This has been proven by Science, comrades) contains substances absolutely necessary for the wellbeing of a pig”, adding with clear fear mongering, “do you know what would happen if we pigs failed our duty? Jones would come back!”, all the way to where the same pigs who “tried to do better for the animals” end up breaking “The Seven Commandments” and becoming the very thing they hated the most; a Man.

The fear mongering happened constantly: Snowball stole Napoleon’s idea and ruined the windmill, he was working for the men the whole time, constantly switching between farms he was hiding in to which Napoleon wasn’t on good terms with… How they switched the rules to fit their narratives/benefit themselves until it ultimately led to them devolving back into what they fought against at the start, how they treated people who basically gave their lives to them till the very end and how they brutally murdered any animal who spoke against them, made me think more of the modern world we live in. And even though this is a fictional story, it is based on real life events, have we changed?

This book was a 5 star read, I’ll recommend it to everyone, no matter what they’re into.

Knowledge is power!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Slavery, Blood, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War

pey333's review against another edition

4.75

dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Slavery, Murder, Gaslighting

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Alcohol

katieplanet's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I "read" Animal Farm through a dramatized audio book by Steve Parker, which I highly recommend to anyone interested. It can be found free on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oKznTu2hkE&pp=ygUbYW5pbWFsIGZhcm0gbm9TRlggYXVkaW9ib29r

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A satire on the corruption of communism, Animal Farm parodies real events in communist history such as the rise of Stalin and the original hopes and dreams of the communist ideal. Through corruption, manipulation, greed, and violence, Animal Farm's once perfect communist ideal is transformed into a dictatorship that leaves them worse off than before.

In reading Animal Farm, many misinterpret Orwell's novel, reading it as either a critique to communism or the inevitability of greed. Although Orwell touches on these points, I believe Orwell has greater message in Animal Farm, a warning that can be in 1984 as well.  Orwell's true message is not to fear the oppressor, but to fear becoming a population that can be easily oppressed.  

Orwell's work may hold the belief that greed and corruption are an inevitability, but the true danger lies in the passive, cowardly, and uninformed population which chooses to let is flourish. It is when we fail to take action against our oppressors, fail to bravely speak our minds against the masses, and let fear control our actions that we become a controllable population ripe for manipulation. Orwell warns us of the danger of, "Letting the beast grow" until one day it grows far too big for us oppose. Even worse, far too big to even see it for what it truly is.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Murder

Minor: Alcoholism