every main character of hamilton ends their story in direct opposition to their main song and their main song is what is potentially their ultimate downfall
hamilton threw away his shot in the duel
burr didnt wait to see that hamilton was shooting at the sky
eliza was no longer helpless and she lost hamilton but she didnt think that what she did would be enough
angelica didn’t keep hamilton’s eyes in her life over the seas and through death but she was satisfied standing by her sister in the end
Did Alexander Hamilton really endorse Jefferson over Burr as portrayed in the Hamilton musical?
Yes, Hamilton absolutely did endorse Thomas Jefferson over Aaron Burr for the Presidency in 1800 -- and pretty much in language as direct as we hear in the play.
In a December 24, 1800 letter to Gouverneur Morris, Hamilton wrote:
"Jefferson or Burr? -- the former without all doubt. The latter in my judgment has no principle public or private -- could be bound by no agreement -- will listen to no monitor but his ambition; & for this purpose will use the worst part of the community as a ladder to climb to perman[en]t power & an instrument to crush the better part. He is bankrupt beyond redemption except by the resources that grow out of war and disorder or by a sale to a foreign power or by great peculation. War with Great Brita[i]n would be the immediate instrument. He is sanguine enough to hope every thing -- daring enough to attempt every thing -- wicked enough to scruple nothing. From the elevation of such a man heaven preserve the Country!"
Ever the shit-stirrer, Hamilton helpfully closed his letter to Morris by adding, "Make any discreet use you think fit of this letter."
And, just in case that letter got lost in the mail or Gouverneur Morris didn't get the point, Hamilton wrote another letter to Morris two days later (December 26, 1800), emphasizing that:
"...as the least of the two evils...Jefferson ought to be preferred to Burr.
I trust the Federalists will not finally be so mad as to vote for the latter [Burr]. I speak with an intimate & accurate knowledge of character. His elevation can only promote the purposes of the desperate and proflicate. If there be (a man) in the world I ought to hate it is Jefferson. With Burr I have always been personally well. But the public good must be paramount to every private consideration. My opinion may be freely used with such reserves as you shall think discreet"
So, yeah, that definitely happened and you can see why Burr might have felt disrespected.
You know how A. Ham's part in The World Was Wide Enough when he gets shot really feels like a panic attack with all the sound effects and whooshing sounds?
And how it stops when he mentions Eliza and everything quiets down?
That's because Eliza always just wanted to grant him peace of mind, and she at last succeeded
This isn’t GREAT but I tried I guess??? It was my first time drawing both Lin Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. I kinda wanna try making the historically accurate ones now- 👀 but I know I’d suffer asf😭
It doesn’t even look consistent with my art style like MY ONE SKETCH OF DAVEED DIGGS LOOKS BETTER GUYS I SWEAR- 😭😭😭