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Act 2: Your Obedient Servant
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Hamilton, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Collaboration, Disagreement, and Democracy
Stories vs. History
Ambition and Mortality
Immigration and Diversity of Influence
Honor
Summary
Analysis
Eliza wakes up late at night to find Hamilton writing. She asks him to come back to bed (“that would be enough”), but he continues to write. Before Eliza leaves, though, Hamilton catches her by the hand: “hey,” he sings, “best of wives and best of women.”
Hamilton really did describe Eliza as the “best of wives and best of women.” So even though Eliza has stopped trying to cement her own place in history, her husband’s place is starting to be defined by her goodness and loyalty.
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