Hamilton Hero Analysis

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Heroism of Hamilton: A review of rhetorical choices Born on January, 1757, Alexander Hamilton was the son of an unknown immigrant planter who defied many odds to become an American statesman and advisor to the president at a tender age. He rose through the ranks to serve as the first Secretary of the Treasury, where he used his extraordinary skills to control the country’s finances during the tumultuous American Revolution. Hamilton was hailed for his support towards the establishment of a strong and big government. Through his “Doctrine of Implied Powers”, Hamilton insisted that the federal government had power that could only be suggested by the Constitution. In the pursuit of developing his legacy as the first great nationalist, Hamilton …show more content…

As an orphan, he worked as clerk, a position that enabled him to master several business skills that he would later use to transform America’s finances in the midst of a brutal war. When his native island was devastated by a hurricane, Hamilton “penned his way out of absolute poverty” by capturing a profound description of the event that the local merchants fundraised for his schooling at the King’s College. In the Musical, the narrator wonders how an orphan who grew up in squalor could become a hero and a prominent scholar. This crucial question is answered by Hamilton himself when he tells his future wife “All I have’s my honor, a tolerance for pain…and my top-notch brain.” (III, …show more content…

Through his writing, war tactics, financial prowess, and leadership skills, Hamilton succeeded in demonstrating how previously marginalized people took on the responsibility and burden of shaping the American history. Miranda’s Hamilton—though presented as an ambitious immigrant hustler and the protagonist in one of the Republic’s early sex scandals is also unambiguously and properly shown as the godfather of the idea that America should be a place of speculative enterprise backed up by big money. It is due to his unfailing effort that Hamilton’s legacy of heroism lives through his portrait in the ten-dollar

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