Relationships and Recurring Lines Throughout the play Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda many phrases and melodies are repeated. Their significance evolves characters and relationships as well as advances the plotline. Some form of this technique is used in nearly every song, but more so in characters including Eliza, Phillip and Hamilton himself. These recurring lyrics reveal a lot about the characters and unlock a deeper meaning to the play than is only seen at the surface. The songs “Helpless” and “Satisfied” play a big part in the underlying theme of the relationship between Hamilton and Eliza. “Helpless” shows how much the two love each other (Soo). While in “Satisfied” it is explained that Hamilton will never be satisfied with Eliza alone (Goldberry). These themes come up again in “Non-Stop” when lines from “Helpless” and “Satisfied” are repeated. Angelica sings to Eliza lines from these songs to explain to her that Hamilton seeming uninterested is not her fault, that he is just never satisfied (Odom). These lines being repeated convey an idea that puts a lot of stress on the relationship between Eliza and Hamilton, but …show more content…
Although Hamilton loved his son, they were not very close. However, Phillips relationship with his mother was very close and can be shown through the french counting song that first appears in “Take A Break”. In this song Eliza is teaching her son piano and french with this song (Soo). This is the only song where Phillip is shown as a child and is the audience's only insight into the family dynamic for Phillip's childhood. In this song Eliza and Phillip try to convince Hamilton to take a break from his work and spend more time with them. At first Hamilton agrees, but then retracts that answer and continues with his work. The little french counting song becomes Phillip’s anthem and is played at times when he is the prominent
In the beginning of the story, when Eliza was sick, she still wanted to get out of bed and work to help care for Patsy. This shows her love, because even though she is sick and can’t work, she still wants to work just to care for Patsy. Patsy, in turn, wanted to go to the stables to exercise some horses to earn money even though his mother was afraid the horses might kill him like his father died. In the text, it says,'"Nevah you min'," said Patsy with a choke in his voice. "I can do somep'n', an' we'll have anothah doctah." "La, listen at de chile; what kin you do?" "I'm goin' down to McCarthy's stable and see if I kin git some horses to exercise." A sad look came into Eliza's eyes as she said: "You'd bettah not go, Patsy; dem hosses'll kill you yit, des lak dey did yo' pappy."’ This shows that even though Patsy’s mother does not want him to go, he knows he needs to get the money for his mother so he can get a doctor for
Eliza's assaults against True Womanhood are violations of the virtues submissiveness and purity. When Eliza refuses to ignore the gallantry of Major Sanford in favor of the proposals of Reverend Boyer despite the warnings of her friends and mother, she disregards submissiveness in favor of her own fanc...
Eliza runs away with Harry and meets up with her husband, George, who ran away from a cruel s...
Alexander Hamilton’s affair with Maria Reynolds put his marriage in question. In the song, “Burn”, Eliza states that, “You forfeit all rights to my heart/You forfeit the place in our bed/You sleep in your office instead” (Miranda). Eliza is telling Hamilton that he ruined their marriage and does not deserve to be her husband anymore. After much consideration Eliza did forgive Hamilton and they got back together. Eliza wanted Hamilton’s legacy to be great and remembered. “Elizabeth Hamilton stuck by her man until his death in 1804 and for 50 years of widowhood” (Brookhiser). Despite everything Hamilton put his wife through, Eliza forgave him, stuck by him until his death, and then stayed faithful to him for 50 years after his death. While she
Eliza is a slave on a plantation that raises her to be a “good” Christian. To Eliza, her masters
"It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. Her husband's suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and stunning sense of the risk she was running, in leaving the only home she had ever known, and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered. "
Lin Manuel Miranda’s performance/musical, Hamilton, shows the loyalty between characters, which is almost as unstable as the Hamiltons friendships. Hamilton is a very ambitious character who brings up multiple times that he will not be, “throwing away my shot.” But loyalty is the driving force behind his ambition. The songs, “Right Handman” and “cabinet battle #2” show instances of loyalty and disloyalty and where they belong to people. “Cabinet Battle #2” shows the corruption that can sometimes form in loyalty, which leads to disloyalty.
Eliza’s blatant disregard for the concern of those around her contributed heavily to her demise. Had she listened to her friends and family when they told her to marry Mr...
line. We know that the quote is an important theme that shows the plot of the play in a few
As to the relationship with their teachers, both students become more self-confident and their teachers become dependent on them, be it in a materialistic or personal way. Yet it is Eliza who complains about Higgins ignorance and carelessness whereas Frank reproaches Rita for her superficiality. At the end Eliza has regained her pride and improved her standard of living although Eliza remaining a social misfit.
The diction of the play relates to the characters. In Wilbur’s translation, the dialogue is in steady couplets the flow is extremely interesting with one actor rhyming their line with that of the line that came before it. All of the characters speak in this fashion with the exception of the Maid, who finds plain words do a better job of getting to the heart of the matter.
As the audience will see, the verses are really bad. Orlando probably has seen this kind of courting in the city but does not know how to write quality verses. Nevertheless, Rosalind was extremely excited when Celia told her it was Orlando who wrote it. Shakespeare used the language technique of repetition to present the excitement
Critics call Twelfth Night one of William Shakespeare’s most poetic and musical plays. Shakespeare writes poetic lines for the major characters, Viola, Orsino, and Olivia, and gives the Fool, and other minor characters, songs to sing throughout the play. The particularly romantic lines of the play make it seem as if the characters are professional poets themselves. Shakespeare also uses the music and poetry in Twelfth Night to foreshadow what is going to happen for the rest of the performance and to reveal major themes in the play. Music and poetry become major characters in the play themselves.
Eliza seems to have stood up for herself against Higgins and support Shaw's theory of Victorian women breaking the ideals of the housewife and child-rearer but once she is married to Freddy, or to anyone else, and starts a family she will have to go behind the scenes and keep the house and tend to her children. Pulling Eliza from the gutter and making her into a duchess revolves around a friendly bet between Higgins and Pickering. Eliza is passed off as a duchess but as the play draws to a close the bet is uncovered and Higgins and her squabble. The play ends ambiguously, we are told she is going to marry Freddy but their marriage is left up to the reader. However, it is with the understanding of Victorian ideals the reader can hypothesize what is going to happen once they are married; which is taking on the original roles of men and women in the Victorian era.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that shows a great change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in poverty, she sells flowers to earn her living. Eliza does not have an education. This shows through the way that she does not have the most proper way of speaking. This happens through when Eliza is speaking to the other characters when she meets then when she is still at a low level of poverty in her life. To understand the reasons Eliza is able to change and be changed into an almost Cinderella like character. With Eliza going from and growing and changing through the hardship she faces. In the play Eliza begins with no confidence and works towards having a way to reach trough from learning during her life experiences. Learning through the other characters Eliza meets through out the play. Eliza grows stronger and shows how she is able to change her ways one can understand how she is able to change and makes these changes by seeing her through poverty, how she is interacting with the other characters in the play, and through the things she learns from the options that are provided to her. Eliza’s beginning education skills of learning to speak clearly through learning diction, etiquette, and looking proper for society. In addition, from how Eliza feels rich when she has money from the broken flowers and when she is able to be riding in the taxi, her ideas showing her strong will her insistence on marrying Freddy. Both Eliza and Cinderella grow up in poverty, have a stepmother figure, have a fairy godmother figure, arrive at the ball, show confidence, and married. By comparing and contrasting Eliza to Cinderella, we can better understand why and how Eliza changes.