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The Death of the Moth, shows how the moth resembles virginias life

The moth is a little part of life but is a big part of Virginia’s life. A moth might just be a little creature flying around in a window-pane to you but to Virginia, it symbolically represents her life. In the essay “ The Death of The Moth”, by Virginia Woolf she symbolically represents how this moth she is watching resembles herself.
The moth in the beginning is very energetic and seems pleasured by just flying around in the window. As the time goes on, as she sits and watches the hay-colored moth, it seems to get tired. “He was trying to resume his dancing, but seemed either so stiff or so awkward that he could only flutter to the bottom of the window-pane; and when he tried to fl...

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