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shadow_maker_7
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Posted: Mon 2009-09-14 07:16
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| Hiking Song |
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Looks like no one seems too have created a topic for this song, but when I listened too the complete version of it (as found in Music of Oceania), I actually found it rather interesting- and so here are the lyrics for those curious as too what they were saying or in need of a refresher in memory
"Sing to the sailors, on the floating fortress
Sing to the soldiers, on the battlefield
Sing to the airmen, in the burning azure
Sing to the farmers, rising yields
We are the children, builders of the future
And we the children swear too thee;
Loyal devotion
Fearless devotion
And too die with dignity
Sing to the thankful members of the party
Sing to the party policy
Sing to our country, mighty Oceania
And on peace and Victory"
This piece surprisingly appears several times on the soundtrack as an orchestral piece, especially on the song titled "The Inner Party Speech". Also, I noticed like it's counterpart "Oceania Tis' for Thee'" similarities too the Soviet Anthem in terms of melody (perhaps a little more in fact)
so, any thoughts on the song at all? What exactly would this song be considered in Oceania society? Perhaps the main anthem too the Youth League/ Spies? |
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Posted: Sat 2009-12-05 21:13
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| Re: Hiking Song |
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| shadow_maker_7 wrote: |
| so, any thoughts on the song at all? What exactly would this song be considered in Oceania society? Perhaps the main anthem too the Youth League/ Spies? |
I get the impression songs in Oceania just come and go, and no particular ones have any significance or shelf-life.
For example:
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The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week (the Hate Song, it was called) had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens. It had a savage, barking rhythm which could not exactly be called music, but resembled the beating of a drum. Roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet, it was terrifying. The proles had taken a fancy to it, and in the midnight streets it competed with the still- popular 'It was only a hopeless fancy'.
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['It was only a hopeless fancy'] It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. |
Thanks for typing out the song, I enjoyed reading it.
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jtk6204
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Posted: Fri 2010-02-05 03:03
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| Children of Oceania |
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You get the impression from the book (and somewhat from the John Hurt movie) that the Oceanian children spend all their time in school, home, and at play focused on the state, aspiring to the great glory and promise of becoming Party members.
I wonder, though, what would happen to a child who isn't "getting it" - as would inevitably happen. Would the Inner Party condemn a child in the way they did Winston Smith? I don't think so - a child so traumatized would not be of practical use. |
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Welcome jtk6204!
Excellent point and one I've never considered before (and for all we know Orwell never considered it either). Plausible scenarios are that they simply disappear misfit children - perhaps killing them or sending them to child labour camps.
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