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Aaron Burr Character Analysis

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Hamilton shares several moments with the show Community, they both teach ambition to their audience through different characters' perspectives, and they both have at least one rap song critiquing America. Why is Aaron Burr’s role in Hamilton central to the musical’s message, and how does it work, work? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” uses characters like Aaron Burr, through literary devices to show the audience the musical's purpose relating to its message. Hamilton is filled with nuances that try to teach the audience lessons about, immigration, loss, legacy, and ambition. Aaron Burr helps complete the thoughts behind these themes by how he interacts with Hamilton, the guy, and Hamilton, the musical. The way the musical portrayed him, how …show more content…

Aaron Burr often started off songs and acted as a narrator for most of the musical, but why not have Hamilton narrate his own story? Miranda chose Burr because he had a big impact on Hamilton's life and death. According to Aaron Burr himself, a.k.a Leslie Odom Jr.,"Burr is trapped in purgatory/killing Hamilton is what landed him there.". Burr has to relive his actions as punishment for what he has done. He goes on to say that the purpose of his purgatory is to figure that what he did was wrong. Lin-Manuel Miranda says in his AP US History video, that he had to cut out a lot of Hamilton's early life so that he could make sure that the musical was focused on the right era. The first song after "Alexander Hamilton'', which is mainly just a summary leading up to the plot of the musical, is "Aaron Burr Sir". Based on what Miranda said, the reason for starting it off with Aaron Burr was because the plot started with Aaron Burr. The songs that Burr doesn’t participate in, are the ones that he wouldn’t know about, in “the Room Where it Happens'', Aaron Burr is telling the story from an outside perspective until Jefferson takes the lead after the ensemble says, “Thomas …show more content…

The people who criticize the musical often point out how it’s not historically accurate and that it portrays the founding fathers in an undeservingly positive way. It’s not fair to call out the musical for not being one to one with history, because that’s not the point of the musical, or with adaptations in general. The purpose of this analysis is to prove what the big picture lesson of Hamilton is, and to show that you don’t need to compare and contrast the original history. It is also important, when making an analysis, to understand the author's intentions, especially when analyzing media based on other stories or parts of

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