Hamilton is a play written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, produced by Lin-Manuel. and directed by Thomas kail the play was performed at Richard Roberts Theatre (NYC) in 2016. based on the life of Alexander Hamilton and the effects it had on the people around him. In my opinion Hamilton expertly gains the audience’s attention to tell Alexanders' story. In this essay, I'm going to go into detail about the types of conflict, lighting, and character traits. Hamilton, the musical is a play based on the book Hamilton by rob chernow. The play is about Alexander Hamilton and his life from childhood to his death. Hamilton is an orphan and he leaves the carabines at age 15 he joins the revolution and helps win the war, he gets a wife and has a son, but his son dies in a duel and then he dies in a duel. …show more content…
a specific example of this is in the song eye of the hurricane which starts off casting a white light only on alexander and blue light on the other characters to put the focus onto Alexander. Another example in the same song is that cast a blue light across the stage to cast a sad tone at the beginning of the song. Types of conflict in Hamilton are used to show the struggle or antagonist of the play. An example of this is character vs self this conflict is of Alexander against himself. Throughout the play, it shows Alexanders' inner turmoil about having an affair with his wife. another example of conflict is character vs character of Alexander against Aaron burr this is shown throughout the play that Aaron burr gets progressively more aggressive towards Alexander until it climaxes to them having a duel and hamilton