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In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, what does the beating heart that the narrator hears symbolize?

(A)-power
(B)-guilt
(C)-survival
(D)-deception

User Haseeb A
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Answer:

Guilt B

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User Rebecca
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It symbolizes Guilt because he can hear his heart beating faster and faster the more he thinks about how he killed a poor old man who didn't do anything wrong.
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