Edgar Allan Poe and Alcoholism

During the mid nineteenth century, it was chimerical to think of putting a man in put behind bars for abusing his wife and children. Many reformers fe ard that drunkenness, curiously the increasing prevalence of round drinking, was a threat to the prosperity of the country. The Temperance Movement was founded to matter this cause, first of moderation in drink. Than came about the Washingtonians, a radical of that pledged total self-control from alcohol to become sober, vigorous men, with their families over again around them, and again ingenious (Arthur 42) who changed the marrow of dryness. They changed the meaning of frugality movement by achieving sobriety though the confessional communicative of which T.S. Arthur, the most famous author of the temperance genre writes about. Arthur promotes the temperance movement by composition his famous anthology, Six Nights with the Washingtonians, which are true stories about inebriates reforming. In contrast, Edgar Allen Poe, a hopeless sot (Crowley 29) writes The Black cast to be a parody that shows the wicked effects alcohol.\nThe motif of the typic temperance narrative conforms to the sloshed of which is used on the subvention of John Crowleys narrative, rummys Progress. The beginnings of the usual temperance story talks how happy there were or their spot of liquor (Arthur 43?). Conversely, a different approach is do by Poe, which presents strong reason why The Black drift is a parody. Indeed, Poe begins The Black Cat with a recap of the wad which brought about his deed by saying, These events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed me, therefore claiming, mad I am not to give the readers a sense what brought about his execution was normal. Subsequently, Poe begins to tell us of his childhood: getting harassed because of his docility and creation the joke of his companions because of his tenderness of midpoint (Poe 1). Perhaps this causes Poe to not hav...