For this blog post, I want to give my overall opinion of Hamilton himself and the show depicting his life and experiences all the way to his death. I enjoyed hearing his life story and the progression of how he slowly rose to becoming a man of power. It kind of reminded me of myself and how I was put in life situations as a kid that most people wouldn’t be able to overcome. Now that I am where I am at, which would be a place of power to me, I can definitely relate with what Hamilton had to go through to become one of the nation’s founding fathers. As far as the musical goes, I wasn’t too fond of it. Overall I find musicals to be a little on the cheesy side so off the bat I wasn’t really a big fan of the show. Also I don’t agree with the musical being seen as a Hip Hop musical. I am a big fan of Hip Hop and in my opinion I feel like the music in the show was a corny rip off of Hip Hop. The messages in the songs were clear and went well with the story, but the music in itself I didn’t like at all. I also didn’t agree with idea of making most of the historical figures African American when in real life they were white. It might seem petty for me saying this, but I feel like the point of the show is to entertain and also educate the audience. Changing the race of characters could lead some of the audience to think that these people could of actually been people of color when in reality they weren’t. I really didn’t understand the reasoning for switching the races; maybe so it would resemble more of a ‘Hip Hop’ feel, but I didn’t agree with it.
English 1102: Hamilton and Writing