Gender Roles In Hamilton

The movie illustrates America's culture and values in the past. As they show in the movie woman do not have much power and say in things. Their job is to

It is a duet between a loyalist and Alexander Hamilton where the loyalist is elegantly singing to the crowd how a revolution is not a solution and the colonists should stay loyal to England. However, Hamilton is rapping about how the revolution is coming because of taxation without representation and bloodshed. In the musical, hip hop and rap is used to represent the revolution while elegantly singing represents the English. This song contrasts the two ideas with the two singing formats. Today's music is also at the transition from traditional music to hip hop and how they contrast while complementing each other. Miranda uses this form of contemporary singing to connect and educate the audience with the revolutionary war, normally considered to be boring. The music was used instead of the lyrics to connect the listener with the history behind the lyrics. American culture has been turning towards hip hop, and this song embodies the changing culture while connecting the present to historical

After Higgins, confesses to his undying love for Eliza. Eliza decides to leave Higgins’s home because felt that it would only hurt Higgins more to have her stay another moment in his home because she did not share the same feelings for him. She now resides at the home of Mrs. Higgins.

Feminist critical lens examines certain texts with a primary focus on both gender’s relationship with each other and how such relationships demonstrate effects towards beliefs, behaviors, and values. This critical lens also examines a patriarchal-centered society and how such society define and interact with women with an emphasis on stereotypes of both genders that are present and evident in the text being analyzed. William Shakespeare’s Othello can be scrutinized through the feminist critical lens. A deep analysis focused on feminism of the play Othello paves way for the judgement of different societal status of women in the period when the play took place, the Elizabethan society. Othello is a best fit that demonstrates how men were

Gender equality was not shown very much in she’s the man. Viola has to act like her brother because she was not treated fairly when they wouldn’t let her on the boys soccer team. Today women are still not fairly treated fairly treated today. Such as in many karaty places where the girl is shown as the weaker sex and not given the same workout as the boys. Also in high school girls aren’t aloud to play on the varsity football team because the are seen as weaker.

The film Billy Madison is about a twenty-seven-year-old who is the heir to his father’s hotel company. Billy’s father does not believe that Billy is responsible enough to run his father’s empire. Billy and his father make a deal, that if Billy can complete all twelve grades then that will prove he can run the company. Veronica Vaughn is one of Billy’s teachers in the film. Vaughn is an attractive, young, third grade teacher who is sexualized throughout the whole film. Thus, causing Vaughn to be portrayed as a sex object. However, Vaughn is not a sex object she is supposed to be a caring third grade teacher. Even though Vaughn tries to teach Billy and her students to the best of her ability she is only noticed for her attractive qualities. Not

Eliza now has two suitors; one who is staid and reserved and one who is amiable and gay. While Mr. Boyer sees Eliza as a woman with “an accomplished mind and polished manner”, it is Sanford’s view of Eliza’s exuberant nature that ensures her downfall (10). In Major Sanford’s letter to Charles Deighton, he sees Eliza as a conquest. He writes that she is “an elegant partner; one exactly calculated to please my fancy; gay, volatile, apparently thoughtless of everything but present enjoyment” (18). Sanford does

Hamilton: An American musical should not be used as an accurate way to explain Alexander Hamilton's life. It is clearly an over-dramatized, candy coated explanation of the time. Alexander Hamilton was a legendary founding father whose legacy has been permanently indented into the history books. He’s a man who will never be forgotten. But Hamilton is not his legacy. His real story is his legacy. History is his story. The truth is what he would want to be remembered by, not some overdone, moneymaking machine loosely based around his

Hamilton has revolutionized not only people’s view on history, but the musical industry by turning the world of musical theatre upside down. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s play, Hamilton, is written to explain one of our founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton’s life, but is told from a different perspective than history gives us. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first idea of creating a play on Alexander Hamilton sparked when he was only in high school and writing a paper on Hamilton and Burr’s duel. After reading a biography on Alexander Hamilton and working on it for a few years, he sang something that would later be put into the musical at the White House. It is told through hip-hop and rap unlike any other Broadway show.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton and Kurt Vonnegut’s book Slaughterhouse Five were written almost fifty years of each other. Furthermore, the time periods they were set in were quite different when it came to equality for women. Still, both Eliza and Valencia live within the same social contexts; they are women of the upper class in America. Although, their values and performances were remarkably diverse. While Valencia surrendered to the domestic realm during her lifetime, Eliza used her potential for a greater good prior to Hamilton’s passing. Also, Eliza had personality, whereas Valencia was made out to be monotonous. These differences, however, can be traced back to the authors of these pieces. How is it that a musical set to be placed when our country was discovered was less sexist than a book that was written after women gained their right to vote?

In Ron Chernow’s New York Times best-selling biography, Alexander Hamilton, it says nothing of Angelica's feelings toward Hamilton since she was a married woman at the time and most likely wouldn’t show any affection she had to Hamilton. However, the book does say “Starting with that first winter in Morristown, Hamilton was drawn almost magnetically to… Angelica, and spent the rest of his life beguiled by both Eliza and Angelica, calling them “my dear brunettes.”… The attraction between Hamilton and Angelica was so potent and obvious that many people assumed they were lovers. At the very least, theirs was a friendship of unusual ardor, and it seems plausible that Hamilton would have proposed to Angelica, not Eliza, if the older sister had been eligible.”

Blee, Kathleen M., and Ann R. Tickamyer. "Racial Diffences in Men's Attitudes about Women's Gender Roles." ProQuest Research Library [ProQuest]. Springer Science & Business Media, July 2010. Web. 17 May 2016.

All things considered, women are very underestimated when being compared to men. All women in this play were without power, a stay at home wife, without a clue and without the ability to stand on their own two feet. Whereas every male character in the play held all the power, were the bread winners, were rational and more than capable to think and be on their own. What this

Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” follows a boy named Pip through a journey of meeting new people around the town and also is considered an Orphan. There are a lot of characters that are introduced like Miss Havisham who always wears a wedding who shows up a lot in the book. Pip changes a lot through the novel with wanting to be a gentlemen but has made a lot of mistakes and blames it on his sister Mrs. Joe who raised him by hand. The women seem to be different from the men in this novel with different roles they play so I’m going to show they are different.

From the very beginning of the play, we can see the unequal relationship between Mr. Higgins (the man) and Eliza (the woman). This difference can be seen by the parallelism between these two