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The Obsessive Compulsive Disorder of the Narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is defined as "an anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from obsessions and/or compulsions" (Wood 407). In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when wakes up at midnight and ritualizes how he is going to kill the old man, when he creates a personified image of the old man's eye, and according to a critic, Daniel Hoffman, when he believes that the sound of his own heart beat is the old man's heart. In the beginning of the story the narrator tells us that he has a disease: "The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them" (Poe 34). This disease that the narrator displays to us has characteristics in common with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The narrator was persistent and went through a ritual every nig
ht to see if the old man's Eye was open or not. The narrator shows another sign of obsession when he hears his own heart beat but mistakes it for the old man's heart beat that he has just killed. A compulsion is defined as "a persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly" (Wood 407). I think it was his eye! yes it was this!" (Poe 34). This sound starts in his head and then invades his consciousness. The narrator describes the eye as that of being a "vultures eye. Macomber 3In conclusion, the narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" shows signs of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by having a compulsion to go through the ritual of checking on the old man every night at midnight to see if the eye was open or not, having an obsession with the old man's Evil Eye, and finally when the thought of hearing the old man's heart, which was actually his, invades his conscious thought and gives him great distress. " He goes further to describe it as "a pale blue color" and "filmy" (Poe 34). for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye," and "I loved the old man. MA A Pearson Education Company, 2000.
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