Why Did Eliza Wrote The General To Let Hamilton

I never thought that I would be so invested in a founding fathers life. Learning things from friendships to heartbreaks. One thing that I unexpectedly learned about was the Reynolds Pamphlet. This was shown in the song, “The Reynolds Pamphlet”, which was a whole song dedicated to the exposure of Hamilton's affair. After this song, we are able to see the heartbreak of Eliza and how she did not want anything to do with Hamilton.

Eliza Hamilton is a role model because of her commitment, strength, and public service. First of all, Eliza has shown many acts of commitment throughout her life. She is the wife of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and together they had eight children. They also fostered a little girl named Fanny, whose father was a Revolutionary War hero, and good friend of Alexander’s. Another way Eliza showed her commitment and ability to forgive is when Alexander had an affair with Maria Reynolds in 1791.

Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America and he taught many people how to stand up for what they believe in and to take a stand and fight for what is right. The Broadway production of Hamilton turned into a movie and both of them helped educate a whole generation of kids to know more about the American Revolution and political history of the United States of America and helped explain how Alexander Hamilton helped shape America as we know it. Hamilton the musical had four historical genres in it. It had romance, music, biopics and war. All of these made the musical fun to watch and easy to understand what was going on and what the director wanted us to understand about Hamilton and America at the time.

With the new information provided we learn that Eliza was “unaffected” over the death of her fiance, this helps the reader understand that Eliza was not truly in love with her fiance but was married out of convenience to her father. Although the arranged marriage her father subjected her to was unfavorable and unjust, Eliza should have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and fulfilled her wifely duties. But instead, Eliza saw the marriage as a curse, forbidding her from having fun and living her life as a coquette to the fullest. This is seen when Eliza says “natural propensity for mixing in the busy scenes and active pleasures of life returning” regarding the death of her fiance. This is when we are truly introduced to the corrupt character of Eliza Wharton.

Lin Manuel Miranda once wrote “Every other founding father’s story gets told, every other founding father gets to grow old. But when you’re gone who remembers your name? Who keeps the flame? Who tells your story?” These lyrics were written for one of our founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, proved not everyone in this world is able to be remembered. Before “Hamilton” the musical was released most people knew Hamilton as the guy from the ten dollar bill, but looking past the dollar bill Hamilton was a hero. Hamilton fought in the war, was Washington’s right hand man, stole cannons, wrote the Federalist papers and constructed the country we know as United States of America. Without Hamilton and the rest of the founding fathers we wouldn’t

Hamilton published a very descriptive and public pamphlet which included letters from Maria and himself. Although Hamilton’s character is questionable, his actions in his career is what influenced the world today for the better. Although his wife was mortified, Eliza not only forgave her husband, but she defended Alexander and spreaded his legacy after his death. This doesn’t justify his actions, but if a scornful wife can forgive her sinful husband, surely we can overlook his character

Hamilton’s total loss of control comes at the same time Eliza gains her agency, during “It’s Quiet Uptown.” As established, Hamilton’s agency stems from his mastery of words, and so like “Say No to This” it is very telling here that he doesn’t speak. The song opens with Angelica speaking for him, and when Hamilton does speak, he is vague, describing “moments that the words don’t reach” and “suffering to terrible to name,” but in particular, “the unimaginable.” These phrases are atypical, considering Hamilton always has something to say on any issue. This not only takes away Hamilton’s voice literally and figuratively.

One day Pip is taken to play at a large house, the house belongs to the character Miss Havisham who is portrayed as an extremely eccentric person. It is during these visits that the young Pip meets Miss Havisham’s daughter Estella, who never displays any form of affection for Pip and treats him contemptuously. Nevertheless, Pip falls in love and it his dream to become a gentleman and marry Estella.

The award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton has won over the hearts of numerous Broadway regulars and non-regulars alike. Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda over six years (“How ‘Hamilton’ changed my life”), it is based upon a biography by Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton (Churchwell). Its surge of popularity has puzzled an innumerable amount of people. The main reasons for this are clear if you have seen the musical live or listened to the soundtrack: the tunes and lyrics are beautifully composed and very catchy. However, if you try to be perceptive, you may find there are more enigmatic reasons as to why Hamilton became such a hit in a little amount of time.

In “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?” Eliza is positioned as the most prominent individual who tells Hamilton’s story. She points out, “I put myself back in the narrative,” offering the power of agency for any story to which she chooses to lend her voice, because Hamilton could’ve been a much different story. A glimpse of this is shared through Jefferson and Madison’s statements in the final number. Jefferson grants, “his financial plan is a work of genius…I couldn’t undo it if I tried, and I tried,” (280).

Monteiro goes on to explain how the play does a lot of a thing called “Founders chic” as a representational strategy. She points out that the play tried to represent founders as relatable, cool guys. For example, the “Founders chic” strategy downplayed the involvement of the Founding Fathers in slavery. The play did mention how slavery existed, and how Alexander Hamilton was in opposition to it, but we had no idea on how his attitude was when he was a boy growing up in the Caribbean. Alexander Hamilton worked on slave ship, making the chances that he was one favorable to it a possibility. Miranda’s point in contrast to that was to showcase the emotions rather than substance. He was trying to image Alexander Hamilton’s life, and how abolition of slavery was a big part of shaping his life.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton gave viewers a musical that portrays its protagonist as an idealistic American hero. Throughout the musical, Alexander Hamilton fights against the British, defends the U.S. Constitution, and works for a better America. Even though he did do all these things, the musical does not include some of the downfalls of Hamilton’s philosophy. In reality, he also believed in a monarchial system of government, disliked the lower class, and was not the abolitionist as shown in many of the songs. Although the musical Hamilton displays Alexander Hamilton as a hardworking immigrant fighting for the independence of a nation, it does not show his more controversial ideology, making it an inaccurate historical representation of an influential founding father. Showing only one side of an argument is a problem in society today when sources of news and facts can be hard to trust for reliable information.

I interviewed someone who saw the play, Hamilton. They explain how seeing the play got the more interested in the history behind the story. They said, “I knew nothing about the history behind it prior to the show.” The explained how the show opened them up to all this history behind the founding of our nation. They also said, “The show also showed how important women were to the founding of America.”

Hamilton: An American Musical retells the story of Alexander Hamilton, the first United States Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. With the aid of hip-hop and rap, Lin-Manuel Miranda dramatises Hamilton’s struggles and contributions during the American Revolution and the formative years of the United States. It is praised for its breaking of Broadway conventions, compelling characters and their interactions, beautiful musicality, and the progression of its plot. There are many that see this musical masterpiece as Hamilton’s true autobiography. However, it is not an accurate telling of historical events. Hamilton: An American Musical intentionally alters the truth of Hamilton’s tale as it misrepresents the historical figures of America’s birth, falsifies a romantic interest between Angelica Schuyler and Alexander Hamilton, alters details of certain distressing events, and paints the main antagonist, Aaron Burr, as a villain.

The Broadway musical Hamilton is a phenomenal hip-hop musical telling the story of former U.S Treasurer Alexander Hamilton and how he came to the United States as an immigrant from the west indies finding his way up in the political world to becoming George Washington’s principal aide and later dying in a famous duel with Aaron Burr. The musical Hamilton follows the life of Alexander Hamilton an American founding father. The musical follows not only the life of Alexander Hamilton, but it talks about the revolution war, the relationship between colonies and England, and the lives of other men that Alexander Hamilton associated with such Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette and Aaron Burr. The musical talks about the personal, political, and social struggles of living in the colonial America.