Strangely enough, on the the major influence son Orwell's novel was a mush less well known novel by the Christian author C.S. Lewis, one of whose fantasy texts also features on this course. There is also a bunch of 'goodies' at a place called St Anne's. In the Manchester Evening News of 2 August 1945, on page 2, is the review titled, 'The Scientist Takes Over'. In that review, Orwell praises the idea behind the novel and most of its execution. He doesn't like the intrusive Christianity and the hope it assumes that the 'goodies' will win.
Humans are very capable of perpetrating unimaginable evil.
The change, suggested by the publisher, was fortuitous, and in the year 1984 the papers and news magazines were full of assessments of Orwell's dire predictions. In many ways, I think we must agree they have all come true. You can find out anything about anyone at any time, given the right contacts. The novel effectively deconstructs the notions of humanity and what Orwell himself called 'common decency'. A bag of filth.