Bipolar Disorder In Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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Bipolar disorder affects over 5.7 million adults around the world. In the story ¨The Tell-Tale Heart¨ written by the American writer, editor, and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe implies a madman´s journey to kill a man. Evidence from this story proves the narrator of ¨The Tell-Tale Heart¨ is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but others may believe that his illness is schizophrenia.
The narrator has symptoms that prove he suffers from bipolar disease. Bipolar disease has many symptoms such as sleeping little or not being tired. In the story the author wrote, ¨… to suspect that every night, just at twelve I looked in upon him while he slept.”(Poe 90)This proves that the narrator shows symptoms of bipolar disease, therefore, making him have the

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