Isaac Asimov's Critique on 1984

Isaac Asimov wrote a review on 1984 by George Orwell to represent contemporary reader's interpretation of the text. Although much of this critique talks about how Asimov analyzes Orwell's 1984, Asimov also includes the reasons behind why Orwell wrote the story. This critique shows to be representing both side ideas but leaning towards reader's perspective, or in this case, Asimov’s perspective. Asimov’s intention is to “set people straight”. Not only that, because this text is in the form of a critique and not a text itself, Asimov assumes that readers have a basic background understanding of the novel 1984. 

Asimov focuses on three aspects of the satirical novel, which are the science fiction, the government, and the international relations presented in the content. This organized format of the text makes it easy for the readers to follow along. The language used is formal and contains descriptive dictions. Furthermore, because this text is based on analyzing Orwell's novel, this text does not show bias towards communists or capitalists. Asimov comments only on why the author writes his story in this way and how he does it. Therefore, readers of Asimov's critique would not be persuaded towards either side but will be given various ideas of why the text written in that way. It is important for Asimov to be unbiased in his critique because the text Asimov chooses to review on contains cultural diversity. Therefore, prejudice comments can be offensive to either side easily and this can make people of different culture furious upon his writings. 

Personally, I think that there are many different meanings that can be constructed from this text. Since this writing is based upon Orwell’s novel, 1984, that contains many biased ideas, the critiques would then be based upon those biased ideas. Therefore, readers can misinterpret Asimov’s critique as siding with Orwell’s writing.