Read the excerpt from the climax of "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Villains!” I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!” Which theme does this climax most connect with?

The narrator tries to conceal the murder, but his guilt and growing panic make him confess and reveal where he hid the body. The climax shows that wrongdoing cannot remain concealed forever, matching “Evil cannot stay hidden for long.”

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