Extra Credit Questions

[AussieMick]

well done, Roger. No harm in using Google (it wasnt dis-allowed) and you would have had to use some initiative.

Yes, Orwell (Eric Blair) and his wife.

And ' 1984' (= 2022-38) has the first line
' It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/o...-civil-war

And ( I for one didnt know this) it has been suggested that Orwell may have based 1984 on work that his wife Eileen had written ...

"Some scholars believe that Eileen had a large influence on Orwell's writing. It is suggested that Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four may have been influenced by one of Eileen's poems, End of the Century, 1984. The poem was written in 1934, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the school she went to, Sunderland Church High School, and to look ahead 50 years to the school's centenary in 1984.

Although the poem was written a year before she met Blair, there are some similarities between the futuristic vision of Eileen's poem and that in Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the use of mind control, and the eradication of personal freedom by a police state."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Blair