Hamilton debuted on Broadway on July 13, 2015, and ever since then, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop musical has entertained audiences in droves. This has peaked interest in the play’s main protagonist alexander hamilton founding the father and the former secretary of the treasury. But is Hamilton historically accurate? A good, amount of the story and lyrics come from real life events all looked over by Ron Chernow the historical advisor on Alexander Hamilton. In Hamilton, there is one main rivalry the one between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton they are complete polar opposites of each other. Hamilton the former secretary of the treasury of the united states is a poor immigrant from the west indies who is bold, poetic, brave and wants to make …show more content…
Chernow did seem to write in his biography that they lead parallel lives They passed the bar and set up their legal practices in the same year.According to the book, Hamilton was “loquacious and charming” and Burr was "terse and convincing,". The Hamilton-Burr Duel occurred on July 11, 1804, after their insults during the Presidential election of 1800 reached a fever pitch, according to the History Channel. While they weren't on the greatest of terms at the end, Burr spoke of his rival as "my friend Hamilton whom I shot" and showed little remorse for the killing, according to Chernow's book. In "Satisfied" Angela Schuler sings about how her father has only daughters Eliza, Peggy, and herself that is why she thinks as the eldest daughter, she has to marry someone rich and let the Eliza smitten by Hamilton marry the penniless. That doesn't stop Alexander and Angelica from mercilessly flirting and matching wits in their letters, though. After talking to Alexander she is attracted to him by both looks and demeanor. Miranda "forgot" that the Schuyler sisters had multiple other siblings and that included sons, according to an interview by …show more content…
It is my interest that it should have been designed, but I presume it was accidental. Unriddle this if you can. The proof that you do it rightly may be given by the omission or repetition of the same mistake in your next.” There is also the fact of the Reynolds Pamphlet were Hamilton's main protagonist get involved in a love affair with Maria Reynolds in the song "Say No To This," in which he just couldn't say no. Ways into the affair, Maria's husband James Reynolds blackmails Hamilton by making him pay for his silence about the relationship: “You made the wrong sucker a cuckold / So time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled / And hey, you can keep seein’ my whore wife / If the price is right: if not I’m telling your wife” Jefferson, Madison, and Burr discover that hamilton was having an affair and confront Hamilton, accusing him of using government funds to pay off the Reynolds couple in the song "We Know." Hamilton proceeds to write The Reynolds Pamphlet to defend himself against using government funds to pay off the Reynolds, as he tells everyone about his affair. In the song "The Reynolds Pamphlet," According to the real Reynolds Pamphlet, Hamilton had an affair with Maria Reynolds and it became the nation's first ever political sex