Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

26 reviews

tillynancy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Rape, Animal death, Death, Suicide attempt, War, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism

edenprose's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

marlasmirkingrevenge's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Death, and Racism

returningb00kworm's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Genocide, Racial slurs, and Racism

stephanie19's review against another edition

reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

maess's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Self harm, Sexism, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Deportation, Genocide, Misogyny, Pregnancy, War, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

sofiadidonato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I have bought a edition that has both of plath’s poetry books and some scattered poems together. I have just finished Ariel. I have been trying to do so for the last 3 years but her poems are really dense and dark. However she writes like no one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Gore, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Grief, Death, Classism, and Blood

shaunaviolet's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Mental illness

Moderate: Racism

je5s_04's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

  Greta poems minus the racism/antisemitism 🫡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape, Racism, and Racial slurs

joperceptions's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, Racial slurs, Domestic abuse, Grief, Racism, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, and Self harm

This was a re read of the book. i found it interesting how much my thoughts could change in it especially after discussing certain poems with my uni class. Her poems progressively get more intricate, and withstand more analytical capability the further you get due to the fact that the ambiguity strengthens. Some of them i liked, a lot of them i did not like at all. I think the main one i enjoyed was “the applicant”. Definitely a lot of racism in here- inexcusable racism. Which made it really hard to actually enjoy any part of the text at all.