The Inaccurate Portrayal Of The Characters Of Miranda And Hamilton

Have you ever heard a story from a hip hop point of view? “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda is about Alexander Hamilton’s life and the role he played in the American Revolution and how he impacted the American people through music and how his life was and how he grew. Miranda accurately portrays history within Hamilton through historical facts and inaccurately through making it modern. These choices in portrayal impact the reader or listener’s understanding of the characters, time period, or musical by making it modern and not as realistic for the time. Lin-Manuel Miranda makes an accurate portrayal of the characters by giving most of them the right historical background for them and the events they go through but he inaccurately portrays the characters by making them modern and over exaggerating the drama and what they have to do in life.
In “Satisfied” Eliza says “I’m a girl in a world in which/ My only job is to marry rich/ My father has no sons so I’m the one/ Who has to social climb for one..” This proves that she gave up Hamilton for Eliza but it wasn't accurate.In this quote it says that she has no brothers but that is inaccurate because she does have brothers to take up the job socially but she still gives up Hamilton for Eliza even if it wasn't for the same reasons. Lin-Manuel Miranda accurately portrayed the time period of the Revolutionary War by capturing the energy and mood of the time and staying true. He inaccurately portrayed it by condensing the time periods and made it more modern for the time period. For example, Washington says that Jefferson resigned, but