Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

583 reviews

berratrixie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

orwell absolutely peaks as a writer in 1984, an absolutely thrilling read from front to back. the three-act structure works in the book's favor and helps unravel the plot in an enhanced way. 
near the end it is already evident how the story will inevitably end, but reading it, feeling the emotions of our protagonist as

he is put through unimaginable horrors before meeting a death he's been desiring since the beginning of the book

, proved to be a crushing yet rewarding payoff. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, and Abandonment

Minor: War

vnfhcxksiw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, War, Torture, Sexism, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Body shaming, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Infertility, War, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Death of parent, Rape, Torture, Abandonment, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Alcohol, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

timmytunter's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Rape

cupcake23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Torture, and Rape

effervescentglow's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Antisemitism

sas_lk's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Honestly just loved this. It was so easy to read, I kept wanting to pick it up the entire time, and just overall captivated me. I loved Brave New World by Aldous Huxley so this is not a huge surprise, but I am so happy I finally read it. 
Orwell's writing is beautiful and one can really feel how much he poured into this novel. I highly respect his effort and I will now recommend this book to everyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Violence, and Torture

hanrutmoe's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Confinement

Minor: War

princess_marie's review against another edition

challenging tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Death, and Alcohol

lynniekate's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape

clairebau's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

This was only a little bit of a chore to get through. I get that it was like, the big thing for its time, but I couldn't get past the messy, disjointed storytelling, the weak attempts at symbolism, and the unlikeable characters. God, the unlikeable characters! Though I will grant them the fact that their god-awful personalities are a result of their surroundings. Julia's only personality trait is being not-like-other-girls. Martyr Winston admits a rape fantasy in the first 20 pages of the book, so I stopped sympathizing with him pretty much immediately.

This book just feels all over the place in a few ways, especially in its pacing. It didn't feel well-rounded or expertly crafted, more like Orwell had a bunch of ideas he slapped together for an excuse to publish twenty pages of grandstanding right in the middle. Yawn.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual assault and War

Minor: Rape