1984 critics

• Bossche: it contains no prophetic declaration only a simple warning to mankind
• Lynch: there are many parallels between Big Brother and Stalin
• Kika: in 1984, children are essentially used to break up the family unit
• Derry: Orwell himself noticed the malleability of human ideals through language
• Berkes: language becomes a method of mind control with the ultimate goal being the destruction of will and imagination
• Topham: language is degraded to such a state that it only serves the government
• Lockhurst: it explores the resistant potential of desire and sexuality
• Conheenyl: it highlights the importance of resisting mass control and oppression
• Lockhurst: 1984 always seems interested in the resources of human resistance
• Yeo: propaganda and surveillance are not just accidentally related, but essentially linked