Read the following lines from "The Tell-Tale Heart."

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Read the following lines from "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!" What does the beating heart symbolize in the excerpt above? The murder of the old man The police identifying the culprit The narrator's guilt