Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

19 reviews

circe813's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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? Yes

5.0

I think I was twelve or thirteen the first time I read this book. Reading it again as an adult was pretty eye-opening to all the things I had either forgotten or overlooked. Scarlett is a fantastic example of a well-written unlikeable character. The reader may hate the things she’s done, but she’s written in a way that makes us understand why she does them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and War

moreau's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

most of the characters in this are such cunts, in an incredibly smart, well written way. i hate rhett. i hate bonnie. i like mammy, charles and wade and scarlett is likeable as a bitch. so of its time but such a classic. disgustingly inaccurate portrayals of slavery that accurately portray white people's blissful ignorance. quite the read but worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Misogyny

aduda06's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape and Sexual harassment

elliebasta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Rape, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Miscarriage

callysutherland's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

amymegan27's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism

kmhst25's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

Such a unique book. I had heard a lot about it, and it still took me completely by surprise. 

Strengths:

• Making you care about truly reprehensible people. The male and females leads are both exceedingly unlikeable, and it can be hard to make an unlikeable character compelling. Mitchell does it with ease.
• The South's perspective of the Civil War. There's a lot of emotional context for what the war was like for people in the South. The writing makes you sympathize for the characters, even though you can't sympathize for their cause.
• Sheer readability. It's so dramatic that you can read it for hours at a stretch.

Weaknesses:

• The length. The book spans 12 years and is over 900 pages long. No book needs to be that long, and this one is no exception. There are sections that drag, specifically in the years before and after the war.
• The South's perspective of Reconstruction. The racism in this section is truly off the charts and the history is one-sided at best, downright lies at worst. This is a disappointment, because the history of the Civil War section holds up. 
• No neat wrap-up. Mitchell has said that the book's theme is survival, which I would agree with, but I wouldn't say that there's a definitive takeaway or clean ending. It simply ends.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Slavery, and War

Minor: Rape

Rape is frequently discussed/mentioned, and there are some scenes with questionable consent and/or attempted rape. There are no explicit rape scenes.

lemonflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

This is a tough one. The story is so good but the racism, misogyny, and romanticism of slavery is so strong. Every praise you’ve heard of this book is true, and every criticism is equally, if not more, true. In the end, I’m giving it a good rating because I rate them based on how engaged I was and emotionally invested, and that was a lot…. But yeah. It’s a tough one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Blood, Abortion, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

another_aspiring_writer's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Rape

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

kimberlina82's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Complicated
• Loveable characters? Complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Classism