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Narrative criticism serves to help us make meaning out of our daily human experience and how different elements of our experience are connected. It is a means by which we comprehend how we impose order on our experiences and actions by giving them narrative form. Narratives help us interpret and construct our reality and “establish coherence for ourselves” (Foss 307). It is “both a way of knowing about and a way of participating in the social world” (Foss 307). There are four main characteristics of narratives, as outlined in Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice by Sonja K. Foss. The first characteristic is that they are comprised of at least two events. These events can either be active (expressing action) or stative (expressing …show more content…

Miranda uses the characters and the set in order to show this. The set of Hamilton is very minimalistic. It is very simple and there are very few props used, as the story is told through the music and the choreography. The set does, however, incorporate revolving floor that is used throughout the musical for certain effects. “The turntable is essential,” director Thomas Kail told Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes. “It allows the propulsion of the show to continue, to continue this insistence of movement that Hamilton had in his life” (Thomas Kail). The minimization of the set also allows for the characters to be their truest and most complex selves without having the distractions of the …show more content…

He meets his rival, Aaron Burr, and the people who would become some of his most trusted friends, Hercules Mulligan (Okieriete “Oak” Onaodowan), John Laurens (Anthony Ramos), and Marquis de Lafayette (Daveed Diggs) (“Alexander Hamilton”/ “Aaron Burr, Sir”) . Deciding that he does not want to waste any time (“My Shot”), he immediately joins in the revolution where he gets noticed by General George Washington and assigned to be his aide-de-camp (“Right Hand Man”). Hamilton begrudgingly accepts his new role, but he continuously asks Washington to give him lead of a

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