This song is about the war, and a
little piece of Hamilton's past in the war. The song "Meet Me
Inside," when I first heard it, made me think of how people say meet me in
the parking lot at 3:30 when they want to fight someone. This song is basically
about Hamilton wanting to shine and become Washington's right hand man.
Hamilton says, "Lee called you out. We
called his bluff," by this he means he knew that Lee didn't have any guts
to stick with what he said, and Hamilton was able to "break" him, and
prove to everyone that Lee was weak.
You can tell that Hamilton just wants
to help defend Washington's honor, but by trying to defend him he aggravates
allies, and starts infights.
Washington says, "This war is
hard enough without infighting- you solve nothing, you aggravate our allies to
the south."
Hamilton replies with, "Charles
Lee, Thomas Conway these men take your name and they rake it through the
mud."
You can see that all Hamilton wants is for Washington to hold
his reputation as high as Hamilton does for him. I wonder if Hamilton hadn’t
grow up the way he did, as an illegitimate orphan, would he act the same way
and want the same things? I also wonder if Hamilton wasn’t so keen on making a
name for himself, and being known as someone who had helped win the war, if he
would put as much effort into keeping Washington’s reputation as he did?
I also think that Hamilton might be a bit of a teacher's pet because yes, he is defending Washington's name but I really doubt that it was out of the goodness of his heart. I think that he was trying to protect his name so that in the end, Washington would promote him. I think that Hamilton was just looking out for himself. The fact that Hamilton grew up as an orphan added to that thought process because growing up, he would do anything he could in order to survive and rise up to become the man he is today.
ReplyDeleteI think that Hamilton wants Washington to want him so bad, that in trying to prove himself to Washington he ends up just aggravating everybody else. I additionally think that in Hamilton doing this, he is trying to get higher up and wants a promotion, but he pushes so hard that he ends up just making enemies.
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