What does “Your Obedient Servant” mean in Hamilton? Mary and Blake explain how formal politeness, wounded honor, competing ideas of legacy and a series of escalating choices push Hamilton and Burr toward the duel.
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Explore the Hamilton musical characters and how George Washington, Eliza, Angelica, Thomas Jefferson, King George, Maria Reynolds, John Laurens, Philip Hamilton and the supporting ensemble shape Alexander Hamilton’s rise, downfall and legacy.
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Alexander Hamilton’s character traits make him both brilliant and self-destructive. Mary and Blake examine how his ambition, insecurity, intelligence, pride, grief, and obsession with legacy make him the musical’s compelling central character.
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Who is the antagonist in Hamilton? Mary and Blake explain why Aaron Burr is more than a villain—he is Hamilton’s narrator, foil, rival, and the character who turns Hamilton’s greatest strengths into the choices that destroy them both.
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