1984 critics

• Will Howell

  'Language has always been a fundamental expression of power
• Jem Berkes

  'Language becomes a method of mind control
• Burgess

  'Big brother is an invention and hence immortal
• Phelan

  'Orwell's great achievement was to convince us O'Brien was possible
• John Atkins

  'Orwell's deteriorating health attributes to the gloomy ending
• Lynch

  'There are many paralells between Big Brother and Stalin
• Bossche

  'In Winston's struggle for emancipation he stands alone
• Kika

  'Children are used to break up the family unit
• Rissanen

  'The party isolates every individual destroying all social bounds
• Malcom Thorpe

  'History must be constantly revised in order to maintain the myth of perfection
• Jeffery Meyers

  'Owell is concerned with the inner psychic frontier at which man can be broken and made to betray'
• Rissanen

  'The party uses hate to keep itself in power'
• Crick

  'Winston's defeat is inevitable'
• Atwood

  'At the end Wiston was a dead man walking'
• Meyers

  'Orwell looked back in time as much as he did forward'
• Beddoe

  'Orwell's self proclaimed egalitarianism should have extended beyond the plight of the working class man to the working class woman'
• Dierdoff

  'Orwell tarnished all female characters with minimal intellect and passive minds'