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Who is curious of the novel title, Nineteen Eighty-Four?
This post will briefly explore a theory for a reason why the name was chosen, which assumes George Orwell knew gematria. But first check out a few Elon Musk’s tweets from today haha. (it just so happens that “Orwell was next-level Based” = 84 Septenary). Btw those texts seem to be are spurring some talk about totalitarianism in the world. It’s funny how governments point the finger at each other instead of addressing themselves.

The book Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949. The theory that the name is based on the reflection of the 20th century year 48, when the novel was written, is enough to be rejected based on plain dullness.

Probably the most profound fact about 1984 is that Orwell’s own wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, wrote a poem in 1934 called “End of the Century, 1984″ [1]. The poem’s contents even show similarities to Orwell’s 1984, including the use of mind control, and the eradication of personal freedom by a police state. [2]

Hinged to this post, the title is “Nineteen Eighty-Four” even though it is commonly referred to as “1984” by others, including on book covers.

Condensed down, 1984 is about “a totalitarian government”. In the smallest nutshell, I think those three words are as concise as you can get. Many people unfortunately only lean on the past Stalinist regime of Russia and former government of Germany to point to any stimulus of why Orwell wrote the book. There is also the Spanish War that he was involved in.[3] There is also Great Britain. Orwell indeed warned and forecasted about his home country but also other governments around the world. His own experiences include writing government propaganda with the BBC. Actually, all governments use the press, national news and other methods to push agendas and to control thinking. It’s quite easy to see Orwell’s distaste for hive mind and dependent thinking. It seems that most people don’t have time, interest, effort or even adequate IQ for independent thought. Instead they lean on news commentators and biased journalists to figure out what opinion to mimic. Ahh the digression alarm went off. Back to the book title!

In 1946, George Orwell wrote:
“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.” [3]

A possible, under the radar influence to Orwell is 18th century English writer and philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft. Most people know her daughter, Mary Shelley who authored “Frankenstein”. Wollstonecraft died at 38 from complications, eleven days after the birth of Mary. Interesting that Orwell’s wife died at an empathetically similar age of 39. One might stop here and wonder what I am smoking 😅. I assure you the answer is nothing; although I am breathing in some Canadian wild fire smoke that is polluting the air of much of the U.S…. Anyways I dare not venture in feminist waters and attempt to reconcile the writings in George Orwell’s 1984. I will say that Wollstonecraft had a reasonable, moderate attitude of woman’s contribution to society that can easily be respected by men like Orwell, during the time of Orwell. Her work was revisited during Orwell’s time, during which he witnessed women stepping in to fill the shoes of men with capability and proficiency during WWII.

Wollstonecraft experienced firsthand how a totalitarian government, the Jacobins, operated while she lived in France. They can be described as the first “totalitarian” government. [4] She was sympathetic to the revolution but did not align with the Jacobins who she described as a “venal” and “brutal” government. [5]

Ok, so how interesting is the gematria connected to Wollstonecraft: She was born on 27/4/1759.
“A totalitarian government” = 274 EO, 1759 Extended.
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” = 1759 Extended
More curious is the fact that the 274th prime is 1759.
103 in Reduction is also shared so it’s another eyebrow raiser that 19+84 sums to 103.

A cursory list of things held in common between Orwell and Wollstonecraft:

• Both British writers
• Both proponents of democratic socialism
• Both anti-totalitarian
• Both lived in France
• Both had first hand experiences with totalitarian/centralized authoritarianism
• Both left winged conservatives

Maybe the birth numbers of Mary Wollstonecraft that synched up with the gematria of “nineteen eighty four” and “a totalitarian government” is just a coincidence, maybe not. I might have to think more about Mary and what Orwell might of thought about her. I lean towards the idea that she was exactly the type of woman that Orwell would be interested in, and at least respect. Another thought is that she was someone admired by his late wife, Eileen. Naming his novel is likely connected to Eileen’s work at the surface, but at a deeper level may be connected to the work of Wollstonecraft.

^[1] Peter Foster (4 January 2000). “Was 1984 inspired by Orwell’s wife?”. The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 4 July 2023 – via arlindo-correia.org.

^[2] Stansky & Abrahams 1994, p. 151.

[3] Why I write, The Orwell Foundation

[4] John Courtney Murray, S.J. (Page 530) The Church and Totalitarian Democracy – via library.georgetown.edu

[5] Geniuses Club, Mary Wollstonecraft Biography, 1.4 Gilbert Imlay, the Reign of Terror, and her first child

[6,7] Elon Musk Tweeter posts (July 18, 2023) pic, pic and tweet