Every action comes with a consequence. In Edgar Allen Poe’s, The Tell Tale Heart, the narrator learns this. The man kills someone who bothers him, and believes that his plan is “perfect” enough to end his troubles completely. However, the theme was proven when the man is overcome with guilt after the murder. This message “every action comes with a consequence” is seen throughout the gruesome story in character, setting, and plot. Poe’s story starts out with the narrator pleading his sanity. In one way he tries to prove his sanity by explaining his intricate plan to murder an old man. In lines 21-22, it says, “I was never kinder to the old man than the whole week before I killed him” (Poe). This quote shows that the narrator drew out the details
