The University of Northampton in the UK has slapped a trigger warning on "1984" by George Orwell, arguing that the novel contains some "explicit material" which may be deemed by some students as "offensive and upsetting", the Daily Mail has reported.

The university's move was unveiled by the outlet via a Freedom of Information request. According to the report, the novel has been flagged for those students studying a module called Identity Under Construction. These students are reportedly warned that the module "addresses challenging issues related to violence, gender, sexuality, class, race, abuses, sexual abuse, political ideas, and offensive language".

Orwell's "1984" is not the only book with the trigger warning, as it is joined by the Samuel Beckett play "Endgame", the graphic novel "V For Vendetta" by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, along with Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing The Cherry".

The decision to place "1984" under the trigger warning has sparked ire among some people who have already blasted the move as "wokeism".

Andrew R. Timming, a professor in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, denounced the move, saying that the university would have "failed in its mission" should a trigger warning prevent "even one student from reading 1984".