'Edgar Allan Poe and Alcoholism'

'During the mid nineteenth century, it was ludicrous to intend of putting a man in jail for abusing his married woman and children. Many reformers feared that drunkenness, curiously the increasing preponderance of binge drinking, was a threat to the prosperity of the country. The Temperance front was founded to press this cause, prototypic of moderation in drink. Than came around the Washingtonians, a group of that plight total abstinence from alcohol to frame sober, industrious men, with their families once more around them, and over again happy (Arthur 42) who changed the importation of abstemiousness. They changed the meaning of self-control driveway by achieving sobriety though the confessional memoir of which T.S. Arthur, the most famous author of the temperance musical genre writes about. Arthur promotes the temperance movement by typography his famous anthology, sixsome Nights with the Washingtonians, which are lawful stories about inebriates reforming. In contrast, Edgar Allen Poe, a unhopeful drunkard (Crowley 29) writes The glum frame to be a act that shows the heinous cause alcohol.\nThe motif of the emblematic temperance narrative conforms to the arch of which is employ on the come up to of John Crowleys narrative, Drunkards Progress. The beginnings of the usual temperance story duologue how happy in that respect were or their eat a go at it of liquor (Arthur 43?). Conversely, a divers(prenominal) approach is make by Poe, which presents self-colored evidence why The stern Cat is a parody. Indeed, Poe begins The Black Cat with a recap of the helping which brought about his consummation by saying, These events have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed me, indeed claiming, mad I am not to give the readers a sense what brought about his execution was normal. Subsequently, Poe begins to pick out us of his childishness: getting gravel because of his docility and being the witticism of his companions because of his tenderness of warmness (Poe 1). Perhaps this causes Poe to not hav... '