Looking at all of this possibilities it certainly seems like this is something that the entire nation should experience. This is the romanticized view of Prohibition; a road to hell paved with good intentions. There were many downsides to Prohibition and people went on selling alcohol illegally. This event is romanticized because of all the possibilities it held and what it could have done. Sadly the event is romanticized for a reason and it did not live up to expectations. Looking at the positives and negatives, does anyone feel that the romanticized view is justified and reasonable?
Sunday, March 8, 2015
A Romanticized View On Prohibition
Going in to Prohibition on alcohol there were many good intentions and I feel this is the driving factor for why Prohibition is and has been romanticized. On the side of the women it was an opportunity for more safety in the home. If the production and selling of alcohol was illegal than it would be harder for the menfolk to come home drunk and be violent towards the women and children who lived in the home. When thinking of the World War, the ingredients that would have been used on alcohol would instead be used for making rations for soldiers. Since many breweries were run by German Americans it was a way to make things harder on those people, especially since so many of the breweries had to close.
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First of all, I would definitely agree that Prohibition was sort of "disguised" in a way with all the good intentions, and thus, made itself appear more pleasing and better. To the proponents of this act, it would not only bring peace to domestic violence, but also opportunity to various things. Now, to answer your question, the romanticized view on the Prohibition is justified in some way. If you were in the shoes of those proponents, then they must have thought that banning alcohol would bring about the eternal peace to the community as a whole. In reality, however, it dug a deeper hole, and made the situation worse. Thus, I think that romanticized view was reasonable, but the actual outcome was very different.
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ReplyDeleteI do believe that the romanticized view is "reasonable", but I believe that it is in a way naive. As Mark Twain once said, "The more things are forgiven, the more popular they become." (Notebook 1985). I agree with this statement, and I believe that this statement is not presenting a new form of knowledge and thought that was alien to the government at the time. I view the romanticizing of prohibition as naive, as many romanticizing are. I feel like even though looking at the romanticized version of the prohibition makes it reasonable, I feel like it is not reasonable to try and romanticize an issue as big as the issue of alcohol in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that the romanticized view is "reasonable", but I believe that it is in a way naive. As Mark Twain once said, "The more things are forgiven, the more popular they become." (Notebook 1985). I agree with this statement, and I believe that this statement is not presenting a new form of knowledge and thought that was alien to the government at the time. I view the romanticizing of prohibition as naive, as many romanticizing are. I feel like even though looking at the romanticized version of the prohibition makes it reasonable, I feel like it is not reasonable to try and romanticize an issue as big as the issue of alcohol in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that the romantasized view is "reasonable", bu I believe that it is in a way naive. As Mark Twain once said, "The more things are forgiven, the more popular they become." (Notebook 1985). I agree with this statement, and I believe that this statement is not presenting a new form of knowledge and thought that was alien to the government at the time. I view the romantasizing of prohibition as naive, as many romantasizings are. I feel like even though looking at the romantasized version of the prohibition makes it reasonable, I feel like it is not reasonable to try and romantasize an issue as big as the issue of alcohol in the United States.
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