What is the theme and plot of the story tell tale heart?

Two major themes in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” are guilt and madness. The narrator is seemingly unable to cope with his guilt and eventually confesses everything to the police, ruining his “perfect crime.” The narrator’s sanity is also in question. His justifications for killing the old man and his actions throughout the story suggest that the narrator has, in fact, descended into madness.

The theme is the effects that guilt has on a conscious the plot can be any of the main events in the story