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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts Woolf's Death of a Moth with Dillard's Death of a Moth. Examples and quotes offered. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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poets sensibilities, there is more to be gained from a Moth, then merely the facts of its life. Both Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillards Death of a Moth, illustrate the
universal truths that they found in the death of that small creature: the moth. In Woolfs version a moth is flying around a window pane with the narrator spots it.
For a while, she writes, the moths world is confined and defined by wood and glass. The moth did not know what to make of the window pane and so
continued to fly back and forth against the window pane, even as the rest of nature went on about its business. At first, she is almost indifferent to the plight
of the moth, but then she seems to have an epiphany. The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moths part
in life, and a day moths at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic(Woolf 1974).
The moth eventually grows weary of flying against the windowpane and lands on the windowsill outside. Woolf notes that she ignores it for a while
and it is not until it attempts to fly against the pane again, that she notices something different about it. The moths movements are slow and awkward; it seems disoriented.
Feeling pity for the moth she reaches out to help it right itself, when she realizes that it is not disoriented, but is indeed dying. More than feeling pity, she
realizes that in the brightness of a sunny day, death had still made its way to this moth. And nothing she or anyone else could do could stop it.
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