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Act 1: Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
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
After the war, King George checks in on his former subjects. “Oceans rise, empires fall,” George crows gleefully, “it’s much harder when it’s all your call.”
For King George, a monarch, governance is ultimately a one-man job. But in this song, he (rightly) predicts that democracy—which involves competing interests and opinions—will be much harder.
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