If you become emotionally or psychologically disturbed when reading fiction, you need professional help.
I can see how a graphic, nonfiction account of sexual assault would trouble a rape victim.
I can also see how college students looking to do as little as possible are attempting to avoid grappling with the classics.
It probably has something to do with academic topics they find useless since it is so obviously easy now to twirl government around their fingers with diversity, inclusion, exclusion (of hurtful things that might upset them), understanding, feeling and compassion for those things not conservative.
In truth it is the act of maintaining constant influence and control. They’d simply rather get the degree after a few cush classes and then move off to some elite liberal job judging and punishing others they disdain, all the while enjoying their unfettered and well funded lifestyles which they deserve simply because they are better than everyone else....they ‘feel’.