Alcohol Consumption In The Cask Of Amontillado By Edgar Allen Poe

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Alcohol consumption had impacted among the people for centuries. People consumed alcohol as a way to relieve from stress. Like the author of the story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe had stressed over a prolonged period, which lead his life in depress and consuming alcohol. When he wrote stories and poems, he was drinking and the health of his wife was getting worse. This led him in deeply drunk that alcohol was everything to him. The more depress that he had become over the years, the more alcohol he consumed and destroy his body. “Edgar Poe died on October 7, 1849 in Washington College Hospital and some experts believe that alcoholism led to demise while others have other thought” (qtd. in Beidler). For example, in the story …show more content…

Montresor do knows that Fortunato will not die of a cough, but from the dehydration and starvation in the crypt. Fortunato gives excuse as to his cough relates to his love of wine. The motto “nemo me impune lacessit,” which is, “no one attacks me with impunity” means that no one will be able to act against me without worry of punishment. The motto to Montresor has another meaning as that the circumstance must exist, so to support the motto and as Montresor has repeatedly been offended that his motto stands as a warning to others. Even though Montresor is having a revenge on Fortunato, but Fortunato still has no idea about and look into Montresor as a …show more content…

“According to research that individuals may be more likely to be put themselves in risky health behaviors when they are around others also engaged in those behaviors” (qtd. in Varela). Poe writes stories by making a connection with the links of mind and matter to the center of the soul, which makes his story, “The Cask of Amontillado” to be illustrated as evil. “The relationship between stress and alcohol drinking is complicated by a host of alcohol-related factors such as history of use, level and pattern of drinking, or timing of accessibility of alcohol in relation to stress experience as well as stress-related factors such as type, chronicity, predictability, and controllability that intersect with a number of biological variables in genetics, age, and sex” (qtd. in Becker). For example, according to Clarke, Uhart, and Wand “clear individual differences exist in sensitivity tom perception of, and responsiveness to stress and alcohol, and both clinical and preclinical evidence indicate that genetic factors help shape the nature of the relationship between stress and alcohol drinking” (qtd. in Becker). In another word, alcohol and stress to depress actually goes in hand in hand, which it could change the way how the people behave and thinks. When Poe 's wife was ill and later passed away, it really brought Poe down to the bottom where he couldn 't live without her and he was previously alcoholic but

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