Tag: eliza hamilton

athenadark:

elizadeservesbetter:

• The whole time, Eliza has been the most wonderful, trusting, amazing person and she has let everything roll over her but now all the frustration and anger that’s been brewing under the surface from all the times Alexander has ignored her or chosen his work over her is coming out and she’s taking control of her life
• The progression of “I knew you were mine, you said you were mine, I thought you were mine” is so beautiful and heartbreaking I’m crying
• How she quotes Angelica twice and simultaneously reminds us how close they are and how much more Angelica knew about Alexander from the moment they met I love Eliza’s  relationship with Angelica so much you don’t understand
• Eliza is finally realizing what Angelica meant when she said “Be careful with that one love, he will do what it takes to survive” which she probably didn’t understand and brushed off at the time
• The fucking beautiful imagery in “you built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals”
• Her confusion when she says “I’m searching and scanning for answers” is also beautifully heartbreaking
• “The world seemed to burn”
• This entire song is beautiful and heartbreaking
• “In clearing your name you have ruined our lives” is a beautiful summary of how Alexander is obsessed with how people see him and acts without thinking about consequences, and how these two things came together into the worst thing he ever did Alexander you fucking idiot
• “You have married an Icarus, he has flown too close to the sun” is such a beautiful summary of the situation honestly it just says it all
• The way everyone else is focused on the affair but Eliza recognizes the difference in the way Alexander is writing, how he is so desperate to redeem himself that he barely makes sense
• Actually can we talk about this for a second because Eliza is easily as smart as Angelica but she never really gets to show it because she’s more of a romantic and even though she’s interested in politics and the revolution she’s more interested in making sure her family is safe but she knows exactly what is going on and she can read into Alexander’s emotions through his writing and she is absolutely done with all of his shit
• The absolute disgust in her voice at “you, you, you, you”
• “I’m erasing myself from the narrative” is so different and so much stronger than “let me be a part of the narrative” when she was younger and still trying to be a part of Alexander’s life and she’s taking control and I’m SO PROUD ELIZA
• “Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart” fucking savage
• “The world has no right to my heart, the world has no place in our bed” she’s so powerful right here and I love it so much
• “You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed” she’s forcing him to take responsibility that this was all his doing and that absolutely none of this is her fault
• “I hope that you burn” she wants absolutely nothing to do with him I am so in love with this woman who has been dead for 160 years send help
• In summary Eliza is a beautiful human being and if you hurt her she will fucking drag you

I was listening to this the other day and had a realisation

you know how they specifically talk about how Hamilton tells Maria Reynold’s story and it’s skewed, well so is Eliza’s

for such an important character in the narrative this is the first time she’s really had the chance to talk for herself, to make decisions for herself

in Helpless – a medley not a solo – she is seduced by the man her sister brought to her, and we know from Angelica’s solo, that Angelica rejected him, we also know that Hamilton didn’t mind which sister he won, he says it to Aaron Burr in Helpless, “If you marry a sister you’re rich son,” is it a matter of if, Burr, or which one?” and Hamilton asks her father for permission to marry her, not her

in that would be enough she is the distraction from the war, she is an ideal not a person

then later she is the cajoling wife getting in the way of his work, who doesn’t see the value of his effort, she nags so he cuckolds her

then we get Burn

where she talks about taking herself from the narrative, but in many ways this is the first time Eliza is in the narrative for herself, and not how others, Angelica, Hamilton himself, see her

and we see she’s not the meek mouse her sister believed her, or the quiet docile wife who nagged Hamilton, she is a creature of fire, of rage

so when we get to the very end it’s Eliza who stands triumphant, Eliza, not her husband, who is the abolitionist, Eliza who works with the poor, and records their stories

contemporary accounts of Eliza herself say she was, Hamilton left her debt ridden and she lost the family house, and she still became a force to be feared, she fought tooth and nail to get the biography published, she continued her charity work well into her 90′s, which is when she raised money for the washington monument

This is Eliza’s moment, this is when we get to see Eliza as she is, a firebird, glorious and determined and righteously pissed off

there is a hint that by burning the letters we only had their voices to give her a narrative, but Miranda made that decision, so when Eliza catches fire, which she does burning the letters, we burn with her