Mini-Analysis #1: “Hamilton” and Narrative Criticism

The play “Hamilton” is a Broadway depiction of the story of early America, told in relevance to today’s current outlook of America. “Hamilton” features is an exciting musical that features a blend of today’s music, incorporating jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and show tunes, which are employed expertly to speak on the current issues and perspective of society as is today, based on the past of America’s founding father, Alexander Hamilton. For instance, the song (“Right Hand Man”) depicts Alexander Hamilton’s decision to accept a political position as an aide-de-camp for George Washington (Miranda, Lacamoire & Chernow, 2016, Act I). Interestingly, “Hamilton” captures the story of the founding father Alexander Hamilton to create a musical that reflects the issues of culture, politics, and education in American society (Delman, 2016). To assist in understanding “Hamilton,” the analysis will employ narrative criticism to explore the critical subject areas involved in the play. As Loof (2015) points out, narrative criticism is a form of literary analysis used in identifying the stories told by the speaker or author, which aid in comprehending the connotations held in actions and experiences. 

Demographic profile of the respondents

Gender and work engagement 

The results of this study show that males mostly populate Nigeria’s banking industry. This result is consistent with other studies’ findings, which show that gender is among the drivers of employee engagement (Tshilongamulenzhe & Takawira, 2015, p.110). Work engagement is assumed implicitly to be neutral, and this gender neutrality indicates that variations in work engagement are down to individual differences. In this context, gender differences are viewed as the social differences between men and women instead of just sex/biological differences (Tshilongamulenzhe & Takawira, 2015, p.110). It derives its meaning from an institutionalized system of social practice rather than an individual property. Like other systems of differences such as race and class, gender reinforces aspects such as resource distribution in hierarchical structures, societies, work practices in organizations, task allocation in families, patterns of interaction between people, and the identities people enact as individuals (Tshilongamulenzhe & Takawira, 2015, p.111).