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What Is Virginia Woolf Striving For

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What Virginia Woolf is striving for and how she accomplishes it is showing the reader to respect death and the power it has over nature and that it is simply part of the life cycle. She creates this effect by using the story of a moth dying as the idea, but then interjecting her own thoughts and observations she uses short phrases that allow for observation, she leaves you with room to consider your own thoughts on death. The words and sentences are arranged for impact, they start off long and have a nice rhythm and the sentences become shorter as the moth begins to die. She uses this effective because the awaiting death of the moth seems to consume Woolf's thoughts; her focus is now on the dying animal and not on long, flowy sentences. Virginia
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