Thursday, April 3, 2014

Please provide a summary of "The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf. Short summary.

Virginia Woolf wrote the short essay, "The Death of the
Moth," after witnessing a day in the life of a moth within the confines of a room. The
story details the moth's short life and its eventual death--a mundane evolution under
most circumstances, but one which apparently fascinated the author. She watches the moth
fluttering back and forth in front of a closed window, tiring itself until it eventually
falls to the window sill. There, the moth begins a battle to right itself before death
overtakes it. Eventually, the moth succeeds in regaining its "footing," and stands on
the sill before it eventually dies. Woolf draws the moth as a noble creature with great
dignity and perserverance; the author herself becomes emotionally involved in the moth's
battle with death, with existential overtones and symbolic references to the moth as a
work of art.

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