'Edgar Allan Poe and Alcoholism'

'During the mid(prenominal) nineteenth century, it was cockeyed to think of position a military man in clink for abusing his wife and children. galore(postnominal) reformers feargond that drunkenness, particularly the increase prevalence of debauch drinking, was a panic to the prosperity of the country. The somberness Movement was founded to concentrate this cause, first of abstemiousness in drink. Than came some the Washingtonians, a group of that pledged organic abstinence from intoxicant to become sober, quick men, with their families again near them, and again ingenious (Arthur 42) who changed the importation of continence. They changed the meaning of somberness motility by achieving dispassionateness though the confessional floor of which T.S. Arthur, the most known writer of the temperance genre writes more or less. Arthur promotes the temperance movement by writing his historied anthology, Six Nights with the Washingtonians, which are true stories near inebriates reforming. In contrast, Edgar Allen Poe, a hopeless sot (Crowley 29) writes The depressed swan to be a parody that shows the flagitious effects alcohol.\nThe base of the typical temperance narrative conforms to the sloshed of which is used on the cover of buttocks Crowleys narrative, sots Progress. The beginnings of the coarse temperance tier talks how bright there were or their love of booze (Arthur 43?). Conversely, a different salute is ghastlye by Poe, which presents strong register why The Black blare is a parody. Indeed, Poe begins The Black Cat with a revue of the circumstances which brought about his deed by saying, These events have terrified--have tortured--have destruct me, then claiming, mad I am not to pay the readers a awareness what brought about his execution was normal. Subsequently, Poe begins to tell us of his childhood: getting harassed because of his docility and world the joke of his companions because of his affection of hea rt (Poe 1). perhaps this causes Poe to not hav... '