Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Burn

In the song "Burn," Eliza tends to use the word you when she is angry at Hamilton for all that he has done. for example, she states:
          You and your words, obsessed with your legacy...

          Your sentences border on senseless 

          And you are paranoid in every paragraph 

          How they perceive you
every time she says "you" she is saying that it is Hamilton's fault for everything that is wrong with their marriage, and how he cares so little about their marriage being ruined because he is more worried about his image and reputation than he is about how his actions will affect his marriage. 

something else that Eliza talks about is what Angelica said when they found out that Hamilton had been having an affair with Maria. She asks do you know what Angelica said and Angelica states this in the song, "You have married an Icarus. He has flown too close to the sun." I was curious when she mentioned this in the song because I had no idea what an Icarus was until I looked it up. Icarus comes from greek methodology. It tells the story about a man named Icarus who was the son of Daedalus who created the labyrinth, and his father gave him wings made out of feathers and wax so that Icarus could escape from the labyrinth, however Icarus flew to close to the sun, and all the wax melted and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. So when Angelica compares Hamilton to Icarus she means that Hamilton is a very confident and arrogant man, and his arrogance is what made him lose everything that he cares about, which would include his family and his reputation. 


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