In Sociology class, we have been learning about different cultures and values in the United States and many other countries. Abraham Lincoln, The Vampire Hunter, is a fantasy/ horror movie based on U.S. cultural events in the past. Throughout the movie, many values that we have discussed about and read about are presented. Abraham Lincoln, The Vampire Hunter begins with Lincoln as a little boy working with his parents. In the first scene of the movie, we see the main value that is presented throughout the movie; equality/ freedom and youthfulness. Lincoln and his family work for a slave owner down South. As a little boy, Lincoln sees the slaves being mistreated and beat in front of his own eyes. However, he sees his friend, Will, trying …show more content…
As Lincoln grew up, he carried that memory with him and sought revenge. While Lincoln goes and face Barts he shoots him in the eye. This goes to show Lincoln the value of self-fulfilment. This could be the only way Lincoln could get him back at him for what he had done to his mother and family. However, Lincoln realizes that he didn’t kill Barts, and meets Henry, a vampire that saves his life and is on his side throughout his achievements and success. Even though Henry is a vampire himself, he educates Lincoln about vampires. Education is a value that Henry teaches Lincoln that helps him succeed. First, Henry tells Lincoln that if he wants to become a vampire killer, there will be requirements he has to follow. Henry tells him that he won 't have family or friends. This is something that Lincoln doesn 't follow and costs him later on in the movie. Then, Henry educates Lincoln on how he will have to train in order to kill Barts. He gives him an ax and makes him hit trees with great force until he takes it down. This makes his physical fitness rise and become the beast that he is. Later, Henry educates Lincoln on who Jack barts really is and what his family does. In the movie, the vampires are the fantasy side to slave owners down in the South. Lincoln finds out the battle in trying to kill the vampires won 't be easy, but doesn 't stop him from trying. The only thing he is focused on is on his self-fulfilment of killing the animal who took his mother away. Lincoln 's practicality leads him to his efficiency of killing vampires as he is instructed by
In Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, by James L. Swanson, the main characters were; John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Leale, Abraham Lincoln (even though he dies.) When John Wilkes Booth (a.k.a Booth) found out that the North had won the Civil War, he felt anger and disgust but he could do nothing. Booth had one plot that the book talked about and that was to kidnap the president and sell him to the leaders of the South but that plot never got put into action. When booth went to Ford's theatre got a letter, Booth worked at the theatre, the letter that said that the President of the United states would be visiting ford's theatre quickly he put a plot into works. First he went to get accomplices and they too would kill someone that night. When the time had come to Booth snuck into the President’s box, not even noticed he pulled out a gun and shot a bullet into the left side and under the left ear of the President's head. That didn’t kill the President, yet. When Booth tried to leave he was stopped by General Henry Rathbone, they had a knife fight while trying to stop both of them from leaving, although Booth got away jumping from the President's box and onto the stage shouting "Sic Semper Tyrannis" (Chasing Lincoln's Killer, by James L. Swanson.)
In The Real Lincoln, Thomas J. DiLorenzo argues thematically throughout nine chapters about the misconception of Abraham Lincoln. He opens each chapter with an argumentative main body, and then provides sources and examples to back up his argument. In chapter two, the belief that Lincoln was the man who fought solemnly against slavery is questioned. DiLorenzo says that, “… Lincoln stated over and over that he was opposed to racial equality” (11). Before his reign as governor of Illinois and presidency, Lincoln ...
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An important aspect of Abraham Lincoln’s overall performance is his personal and political background. Concerning his opinions on slavery, his personal background shaped his ideals in a very unique way. James McPherson, author of the short biography Abraham Lincoln, provides some insight into Lincoln’s background, writing that Lincoln’s fathe...
Abraham Lincoln is perhaps one of the most interesting characters to have ever graced the American political arena and presidency. He is most noteworthy, obviously, for his role in saving the United States from its own destruction and the eradication of the vile Southern tradition of slavery. However, upon deeper inspection, one finds there was much more to Lincoln than his political achievements. Throughout his years as a politician, there's a noticeable shift in terms of his character, and political persona. He seems to go from ambitious and boisterous to being more solemn and reserved. Also, it should be noted that some remark that Lincoln was, quite ironically, both America’s most democratic and autocratic President to have ever held office. However, it seems that though there is abundant evidence for his democratic values, there are little to suggest his autocratic intentions. As though some lines revealing such intent can be found, many are also directly rebutted by powerful democratic rhetoric. All of this can be found in Lincoln’s four main speeches; “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand”, his Inaugural Addresses and the Gettysburg Address. Basically, in order to properly analyze Lincoln it may be best to look at Lincoln’s personal and political changes within the terms of his antebellum and Civil War “personalities”, as well as to examine his democratic and autocratic leanings; all through scrutinizing Lincoln’s major speeches.
One of the greatest men to walk this earth was our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln. As we all know Lincoln achieved many attributes in his time. Some of his most famous achievements include: signing off on the Emancipation Proclamation, giving numerous speeches like the Inaugural Address and Gettysburg Address, and ending one of the most brutal battles in history: the Civil War. What we weren’t taught in class or through reading history books was that Lincoln became a unique type of hunter that killed vampires while on his road to presidency. It wasn’t until 2012, when director Tim Bekmambetov turned the novel Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter into a film that Lincoln fans began to see him as more than a great President, but also a vampire hunter. According to Mike Scott in his review about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the film “re-imagines our 16th president as a secret, ax-wielding slayer of bloodsuckers” (Mike Scott). The movie is not meant to be a documentary, it’s rather an action packed bloody mess. Furthermore, while the film doesn’t hit all of the highlights of Lincoln’s life, it rewrites history just a little bit.
Looking back at the life of Abraham Lincoln, if you read about him before 1858, you wouldn’t think he would be such a predominant figure in American history today. It’s not till you learn about the election in 1860 and the events following that you learn what cemented this man, who would become our nations sixteenth president, into our nation’s history. If Lincoln had not won the election, perhaps our only memory of him would be his famous “House Divided” speech from the Illinois Republican Convention in 1858, but we learn from a young as, that isn’t the case. Lincoln went on the be the President during the bloodiest war in American history. Despite having little schooling as a child he would also write his own speeches before and during his
In the book Team of Rivals, Abraham Lincoln strongly opposes slavery, he states that slavery needs to be confined to the places where it existed. Lincoln first want to stop slavery from progressing more, then he will deal with how to abolish it completely (Goodwin 9-111). In the book Lincoln Vampire Hunter the author also explains how Lincoln hates slavery, Lincoln states that slavery is a sin. However, in the vampire hunter Lincoln tries to make a connection between slavery and vampires, which is obviously inaccurate. In the vampire hunter Lincoln lets his angry get over the issue of slavery and he creates a speech that will take a national significance among the opponents of slavery (Grahame-Smith 17-132). That is how the authors showed Lincoln’s view on slavery, now the real view that Lincoln had on slavery was that he really did oppose slavery, however he still didn’t think that African American’s should have the same rights as a white person. Apparently Lincoln did not see slaves as a part of the American society, rather he saw them as an alien who were uprooted from their own society and brought overseas to America (Foner). Both of the authors used the historical facts were accurate to the real facts on slavery, however both the authors incorporated the information in two different
Lincoln was born on february 12, 1809 in Hodgenville Kentucky. For most of his childhood he was mostly self educated, constantly reading books and gaining knowledge on the world around him. Even when he started as a young lawyer, he always outwardly opposed slavery. When Abraham began to get into politics he was always popular by the people. Although he lacked an education, money or powerful friends, he still managed to gain significant popularity and was described to be able to draw crowds. When Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the united states, that's when he made a real change to the world. Back in Lincoln's time, slavery was more accepted and was legal in many of the southern states in America. Although slavery was illegal in the northern states, they still contributed to slavery
Overall, Lincoln is a comprehensive study of Abraham Lincoln’s life and is a factual goldmine. Donald’s omission of summarizing paragraphs and lack of conclusion make understanding the larger picture hard if the reader is unfamiliar with the story of Abraham Lincoln, so this book is best-suited to researchers and history buffs. Even though Donald’s thesis was ill-supported, the value of his book did not lie with the argument, but with the sheer amount of information contained within the pages, making the thesis the lesser focus of the work.
In his article “ True Blood, Undead on Arrival”, Tom Shales likens the discrimination of vampires to homophobia. This has been a major topic has been a major part of recent political and social debate. Adapting the common used catch phrases. The writers have been labeling the vampire 's openness to their state of being as “out of the coffin”. Labeling their lifestyle as alternative the comparison cannot help but to be compared. These factors allow people in today’s society to have a way to identify the comparison. The incorporation of yet another form of modern society with the fantasy world. People are able to identify with a mind form. If you tend to be more liberal,it is likely that you would accept the Vampire Rights Movement from the plot. And vice versa. According to Tom Shales, again, in his article “True Blood, Undead on
The vampire had been depicted as the epitome of offensive and seductive behavior in their early representations. It has suffered an enduring image of something inhuman and monstrous that feeds and thrives at the expense of others. As David Punter and Glennis Byron have asserted, “Confounding all categories, the vampire is the ultimate embodiment of transgression” (The Gothic 268). The transgressive behavior of the vampire was first observed with Stoker’s Dracula. Although this figure is attractive to us in many ways, with his intelligence and immortality, the Count is primaril...
Although Abraham Lincoln was President over a century ago he is still considered to be one of our greatest Presidents, and his legacy remains important today."
Although the film and the novel of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter highlighted different characters and other versions of Lincoln, they shared a commonality in the underlying themes discussed within the works that later helped to explain the alteration of his character as a result of the Twenty-First Century. One of the main themes shared between the works was the fight against oppression and injustice. An immediate connection was made between vampires and slavery: the reason for the imprisonment of the African American race in the South was due to vampires. The movie said that “killing a slave was not considered murder, no matter the circumstances” and went on to illustrate how this fact upset President Lincoln to the point where he wanted