I don’t know of any love songs that fit the theme of fighting first, nor do I know any battle songs that have lovey-dovey parts. Therefore, I decided to go with what I’m familiar with and just have some nice, dramatic, and calming battle music. This is “The Battle,” from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

I THINK THE PHONE’S BROKEN

 

 

Look Down (Les Miserables) (2012)

This song shows a society in which the people are repressed by a government seeking control. Though the setting of Oceania contrasts greatly with France during its revolutionary period, the people sing of equality and revolution. If INGSOC’s government was less harsh when handing out punishments, this could be a possible comparison. However, INGSOC does not give out punishments in the severity of simply breaking up protests, but actively seeking out public figures and either making them Public Enemy no.01 or by erasing all traces of their existence. In both settings, the general populace lives in poverty and many are too afraid to fight for the freedom of all.

Trump’s insistence that his incorrect Alabama tweet was correct tips into the Orwellian

• how Trump tells us to reject our knowledge and believe what he says
• how past information from hours before proved him completely wrong
• how Trump kept arguing that Alabama would be hit even after proven wrong
• how Trump went so far as to rewrite a map to show that Alabama is on the East coast
• how this shows that this is an Orwellian change

This article displays the word “Orwellian” in a light in which it means authoritarian. This is not completely accurate, but it can be seen as on the side of being used right. I believe that this article is using the word kind of accurately. Though “Orwellian” implies that misinformation is done using words, this is similar to what Trump did. He asks us to ignore our former knowledge and only believe what he says – that Alabama is located on the East coast of the United States, and will be hit by hurricane Dorian. This is comparable to the authoritarian government in 1984, led by “Big Brother.” This government would also spread lies, promoting them as the only truth.