“The story of the life of Alexander Hamilton is a story that the most gifted novelist could not have invented. Too much of it would seem implausible in terms of what happened to this man in the space of forty-nine years.” Ron Chernow, the author of Alexander Hamilton, spoke these words in the PBS documentary American Experience: Alexander Hamilton. It seems hard enough to imagine that a bastard orphan from an island in the Caribbean could survive both yellow fever and a devastating hurricane, let alone rise to become one of the most pivotal forces in shaping an entire governmental system.
After witnessing the death of his mother, Hamilton entered a limbo of sorts, unable to find a stable place to call home. He passed under the care of …show more content…
Burr, finally reaching his breaking point, attacked Hamilton's character and challenged to pay for his actions which resulted in Burr's stunted political growth. As a man whose honor was his greatest pride, Hamilton felt he had no choice but to duel, which was coincidentally the exact reasoning his son had given the day he stood toe to toe with George Eacker, who had also slandered Hamilton's name.
Another parallel of the duels is they both were made in defending hamilton's honor. Hamilton and Philip also both deloped, or threw their shots away, and they both lost their lives in the process. And, in possibly the most heartbreaking parallel of them all, Hamilton's pride cost him his life, just like it had his son three years prior.
Alexander Hamilton had finally run out of …show more content…
He found Eliza, who was then about seventy years old, staying at her daughter's home. Against her nature, she acted coldly and didn't even bother inviting Monroe to sit as she stared him down. So, without prompting, the former president began what sounded like a well-rehearsed speech, saying “that it was many years since they had met, that the lapse of time brought it softening influences, that they were both nearing the grave, when past differences could be forgiven and forgotten” (Hamilton 116). And, although thirty years had passed since both his wrongdoing and the death of the man he had wronged, Eliza refused forgiveness. Instead, she answered, “Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders, and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But, otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference” (Hamilton
After witnessing the death of his mother, Hamilton entered a limbo of sorts, unable to find a stable place to call home. He passed under the care of …show more content…
Burr, finally reaching his breaking point, attacked Hamilton's character and challenged to pay for his actions which resulted in Burr's stunted political growth. As a man whose honor was his greatest pride, Hamilton felt he had no choice but to duel, which was coincidentally the exact reasoning his son had given the day he stood toe to toe with George Eacker, who had also slandered Hamilton's name.
Another parallel of the duels is they both were made in defending hamilton's honor. Hamilton and Philip also both deloped, or threw their shots away, and they both lost their lives in the process. And, in possibly the most heartbreaking parallel of them all, Hamilton's pride cost him his life, just like it had his son three years prior.
Alexander Hamilton had finally run out of …show more content…
He found Eliza, who was then about seventy years old, staying at her daughter's home. Against her nature, she acted coldly and didn't even bother inviting Monroe to sit as she stared him down. So, without prompting, the former president began what sounded like a well-rehearsed speech, saying “that it was many years since they had met, that the lapse of time brought it softening influences, that they were both nearing the grave, when past differences could be forgiven and forgotten” (Hamilton 116). And, although thirty years had passed since both his wrongdoing and the death of the man he had wronged, Eliza refused forgiveness. Instead, she answered, “Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders, and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But, otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference” (Hamilton