Edgar Allan Poe and Alcoholism

During the mid nineteenth century, it was ludicrous to think of set a man in jail for abusing his wife and children. umteen reformers feared that drunkenness, particularly the increasing preponderance of binge drinking, was a threat to the prosperity of the country. The Temperance cause was founded to press this cause, first of palliation in drink. Than came nigh the Washingtonians, a group of that pledged rack up abstinence from alcohol to render sober, industrious men, with their families again rough them, and again happy (Arthur 42) who changed the meat of temperance. They changed the meaning of temperance cause by achieving sobriety though the confessional history of which T.S. Arthur, the most known writer of the temperance writing style writes almost. Arthur promotes the temperance movement by writing his famous anthology, sextuplet Nights with the Washingtonians, which are true stories about inebriates reforming. In contrast, Edgar Allen Poe, a black drunkard ( Crowley 29) writes The down in the mouth reproduce to be a imitation that shows the heinous effects alcohol.\nThe report of the typical temperance narrative conforms to the arch of which is used on the cover of John Crowleys narrative, Drunkards Progress. The beginnings of the everyday temperance story dialog how happy there were or their love of liquor (Arthur 43?). Conversely, a different burn down is made by Poe, which presents industrial-strength evidence why The cruddy Cat is a parody. Indeed, Poe begins The Black Cat with a reexamination of the circumstances which brought about his proceeding by saying, These events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed me, then claiming, mad I am not to recrudesce the readers a sense what brought about his execution was normal. Subsequently, Poe begins to tell us of his childhood: getting irritated because of his docility and being the joke of his companions because of his core of heart (Poe 1). Perhaps this causes Poe to not hav...