Virginia Woolf's On The Death Of A Moth

In the passage by Annie Dillard, she writes about a moth who was restrained in a jar, then when it is set free, it is unable to fly. In the story “The Best Gift of my Life,” Cynthia Rylant lives in a rundown apartment with her mother. She dreams of a better life. While she is in her small hometown, called Beaver, she feels smart, pretty and fun. This is similar to the moth being comfortable in the glass jar, because it has not been exposed to anything else all it’s life Whenever Cynthia leaves Beaver she feels like she is a nobody: “But as soon as I left town to go anywhere else, me sense of being somebody special evaporated into nothing, and I became dull and ugly and poor”. When she goes away to college, this feeling goes with her. She is

Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies is a work of historical fiction set in the Dominican Republic that focuses on the four Mirabal sisters who bond together to rebel against the corrupt leader of their country, Rafael Trujillo. The four Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa form closer relationships with each other as they figure out a way to bring down the tyranny of Rafael Trujillo. Although they have a mutual goal, each of the Mirabal sisters has different feelings and thoughts throughout this time period. The theme of coming-of-age and identify is best exemplified through the character of María Teresa, known as Mate, through the ways she matures throughout the novel and becomes her own person who stands up for what she believes in.

The moth which was once full of life, and excitement, was knocked over, and battles death to find its way upright. As the moth struggles to right itself, Woolf says, “The unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves.” The inanimate force of death is being represented as something animate, in a way personifying, that is causing a physical toll on the moth. Woolf uses this metaphor to show death as an object, which can consume life, and in this case, the moth. As we just knew the moth as a Lively, and nimble , we know know the moth as life that is weakening so rapidly. Woolf uses this metaphor to compare the beginning of life to the now deteriorating life of the

“The butterfly is nature’s way of reminding us that there is hope in grief when a caterpillar is no more and the butterfly exists in ultimate freedom and beauty.” These words of Tanya Lord perfectly describe the allusion of butterflies that caught my attention while reading the book O Pioneers! By Whila Cather. There are two main setting in which butterflies appear throughout the novel, after doing research I found many interesting facts of butterflies, and was able to better understand why Cather used this allusion.

She does not use facts and logic like Petrunkevitch but, instead uses metaphors and an imagery to convey her message. “It seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world has been thrust in into his frail”, instead of simply describing what she saw like Petrunkevitch would have done, Woolf describes the deeper shiz of the moth’s actions. She does this to give the moth (metaphor for life) a sort of beauty then later saying, “the moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed”, to show the drastic change that death brought to the moth. Her metaphors help the reader understand and respect the power of death. Unlike Petrunkevitch who states and proves his thesis in his essay, Woolf never says her main idea but instead explores the idea of death through her essay. Woolf begins her essay by setting the scene unlike Petrunkevitch who begins his essay by giving an introduction and stating his thesis. Woolf begins her essay by creating the bright, lively scene which reflects life. Then, while Petrunkevitch is using facts and information to continue his idea, Woolf continues writing metaphorically. Finally, to end his essay Petrunkevitch ends with giving his final thoughts and conclusion, Woolf ends here essay by creating the dark, somber scene which reflects

In the course of her memoir An American Childhood, Annie Dillard combines images and memories of her life with various reflections from her adult self. Her memoir spreads from early youth when she has not yet “awakened” until her later life as a teen struggling with coming to terms with the world around her and the society she lives in. Throughout the course of her memoir, Dillard presents the world through a slightly pessimistic point of view as a way to highlight the complexities and reality of life growing up in America.

The novel written by Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies, is about four sisters: Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Mate Maribal. They live the the Dominican Republic during the presidency of Rafael Trujillo, a ruthless leader. As they grow up, resistance groups start assembling, and the sisters join in hopes of saving their country, while also trying to live their lives. The theme of fighting and also trying to maintain normalcy in life is the best theme in the entire book.

The brief flash-back to the man standing below who has “no such illusions” of the moon, provides the reader with a nod back to reality as well as yet another reminder of the queerness of the Man-Moth and his “false” perspective. The last two lines of this stanza are the richest, stating, “But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although / he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt. These words encompass a raw human instinct, the will to do what we fear most. However, the fact the Man-Moth remains unhurt in the process also exudes a sense of the human error of misperception, like the common fear of spiders or a child’s fear of jumping into a swimming pool.

I haven’t had to many encounters with the homeless, besides giving money to some people on the street. I knew some people throughout high school that were homeless, but not necessarily on the street. I’ve let old friends sleep at my house, if they hadn’t anywhere to go. Living on the street, you have to learn and adapt to new living environments and survival skills. It seems as if knowing how to act can also be of use, and is used with lots of people on the streets, according to to, Launa Lea, in her story on, The Moth.

The play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, written by Edward Albee in 1962, is set on a chilly winter night in New England University during the time of The Cold War. It gives a vital insight into the American life through two couples while bringing out the raw human truth behind the phony exterior portrayed by the society. Albee presents characters caught in hopeless, repetitive, and meaningless situation, trying to battle their inner turmoil between truth and illusions. The meaninglessness of life is further brought out through the distorted relationships between the characters by Albee’s characterisation. He brings out the sense of Nihilism where the lack of belief in the world is fuelled by the fear of a nuclear war. The contagious trepidation of death makes the characters question the purpose of life and its significance. This essay will examine how Albee uses the technique of characterization to candidly represent the theme of nihilism through dialogues, symbols, setting and tone.

Today was the dangerous day of my life. My body change in all way my back sprouted wings. My body change colors my eyes turned yellow, my legs and arms grow and started manifesting and to my whole life. Then to my old life was still with me but the new addition to it was and is “The Fighting Moth” the reason of this to help the people and free them from the villain hood of the “Trio of Power” but hopefully they were no match for the Fighting Moth and “Kassi the Leech”. The journey with the power of my wing power, telekinesis,telepathy,force field, and invincibility with these power me and my sidekick Kassi the Leach were not to be messed with.

Woolf’s views on work are elitist. She highlights this herself when she says her first purchase with her first paycheck was a Persian cat. Most women of that time are looking for a job did so to keep food on the table and sustain life in general. As she mentions in her essay “when I came to write, there were very few material obstacles in my way” (Woolf 307). She was considered very privileged for her time. Virginia Woolf is able to be leisurely with her money because of her wealthy background and unusually high education level. Her father was a historian and an author himself who provided his daughter with higher education unlike most families in that time period. Her life is something obscure to the majority of women.

Examining the language on a basic level, the story of the poem begins somewhat unclearly. The first of the stanza of this free-verse poem tells the reader of a man standing directly under the moonlight, beneath the shadow of his hat, “he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon.” At this point, it is unsure what role this man will play. The next stanza, in it’s identical eight-lined form, tells the reader of the emergence of the main character, the Man-Moth who possesses superhero-esc abilities, climbing to the tops of the city buildings. The knowledge that, “He thinks the moon is a small hole at the top of the sky,” is also given to the reader.

Riding the moth which I elaborated, spreading the wings of a wandering mind; the time arrived with a present task, traversing the dialogue which the twin mural marmots carried. The women whom I studied and denied expelling from my burgeoning soul passed their night inside my jar; their varicoloured coats brushed its transparent and brittle surface.

Richard, who is dying from AIDS, symbolising a diseased society. The visual portrayal of graffiti