The correct answer would be B. Guilt because in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The
Tell-Tale Heart,” the beating of the heart that narrator hears is symbolic for
the guilt the narrator feels for having murdered the old man. Evidence of his guilt is presented early in
the short story by how the narrator tells us that he “had to do it” as if he
had no other choice, which seems to be a sort of defense mechanism to make
himself feel better about killing the old man.
Finally, it is within the presence of the police that the beating heart
only he hears is what makes him confess to the crime because it was getting too
great for him to bear any longer.
Hope I helped.
The correct answer is : We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. & The drops of moisture trickle among the bones. Come, we will go back ere it is too late. Your cough—".
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Romeo is still determined to enter the tomb. The noise does not deter him. When Paris arrives, Romeo tries to tell him
to leave but they fight and Paris is killed.
He takes Paris to Juliet’s tomb and drinks the poison. When Juliet awakes, she sees Romeo dead and
kills herself with a dagger.
