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[msjellyfish0122]

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[steph-anie723]

“how can I make this about Hamilton” i wonder 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[badeyesightdog]

Zimba

[msjellyfish0122]

Really want to see this:

After Hamilton was shot, many people went to congratulate Jefferson.

Jefferson accepted all their congratulations with a measured smile, but late at night, he would sit alone, fingers tracing the little notes Hamilton had left him—notes filled with criticisms of his policies. Jefferson had kept them all.

A few days later, Madison noticed a new bust of Hamilton in Jefferson’s home, carved with lifelike detail.

"Why do you have a statue of Hamilton in your house?" Madison asked, puzzled.

Jefferson didn’t answer. He simply smiled, noncommittally.

They will be enemies forever in history. 😭😭😭

[sonofhistory]

Is there any reason on why Jefferson had a bust of Hamiltom at Monticello? I always see people talking about it...

(As soon as I got this I had an itching to answer it immediately). 

That is the bust of Alexander Hamilton that Thomas Jefferson had in his home of Monticello. It was created in 1794 and Jefferson purchased it from Philadelphia. He placed one of himself and that bust across from each other in the Entrance Hall of his home. The busts meet at the eyes, staring at each other for eternity. The busts are still on display today. One of Jefferson’s grandchildren stated:

“the eye settled with a deeper interest on busts of Jefferson and Hamilton, by Ceracchi, placed on massive pedestals on each side of the main entrance—"opposed in death as in life,” as the surviving original sometimes remarked, with a pensive smile, as he observed the notice they attracted.“

When a visitor was surprised at the bust, Jefferson replied, “opposed in death as in life.” [x] his tone of manner showed no negative feelings. 

As I started in my essay on the entirety of the Jefferson-Hamilton rivalry here, Jefferson did not speak about Hamilton after his death, choosing even not to reply to passages of letters from John Adams in which he brings up Hamilton. But really, we will never know why he needed the bust so badly. It is of my personal belief that had Hamilton survived, they would of struck up a correspondence later in life. 

[badeyesightdog]

[msjellyfish0122]

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[biblicalvampireemmy]

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[msjellyfish0122]

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[thelittlefandomdefender]

Okay so I think people haven't fully grasped that in Hamilton the reason the characters aren't 100% accurate is because it's all through Hamilton's own lens. Jefferson isn't presented as a psychopathic slave trader, he's presented as an annoying prick, because that's how Hamilton saw him. Maria Lewis Reynolds is presented as a seductress because he didn't really care that she had been abused and bullied into what she did. It's not as if he realistically knew her that well. That's all he had seen of her. Eliza is presented with her overriding themes being forgiveness, kindness, love, and nothing else, because Hamilton saw her in that way. As a symbol of eternal adoration and well, yeah, the forgiveness is obvious isn't it? Angelica is fiery and opinionated, despite the fact she was more well known for being flirtatious irl because Hamilton viewed her like that, as passionate, as opinionated. That's why some characters aren't given much depth. That's why some seem really odd compared to their real selves. That's why some barely even show up. That's the entire point of the show. Alexander Hamilton is presented as sympathetic for this reason. Because it is his story. Not the story of American politics!! That's the point of the show? Please can folk stop complaining that the characters 'seem unrealistic' or they 'aren't like how they were irl!!!' or 'this character got not enough showtime! so unfair!' like yes we know it's a musical not the damn discovery channel go read a book while listening to the soundtrack if you want but no one ever claimed it was the fount of all post-civil war political knowledge.

[msjellyfish0122]

interesting perspective

[papers-pamphlet]

What am I even doing

Og

[john-laurens]

Broke: Alexander Hamilton cheated on Elizabeth Schuyler with John Laurens

Woke: Alexander was with John first, so he cheated on John with Eliza

[msjellyfish0122]

神邏輯

[jhoca]

petit lion

I love his nickname and these colors 🧡 trying to remind myself not to be a perfectionist and to allow yourself to be messy, like go wild, take risks! Fan that spark into a flame, fight every day like you’re running out of time!! What can I say, I've got the spirit of revolution in me...

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[msjellyfish0122]

Suddenly hearing a knock on the door at midnight, opening it revealed a long-deceased comrade and lover.

Alexander knew that John could never return.

The "John" standing before him looked exactly like the one in his memories, but there was no way it could be him.

John had died on the battlefield.

Yet, when "John" reached out to him, Alexander still embraced him—trembling.

"I don't know how to say no to this."

[birdytaste]

We tell your story.

Did four more endings for this series.