English Assignment

[nikki_piper]

I had to read an essay called " The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf. It is about a moths struggle for life that ends in its tragic death. The moth symbolizes the universal truth that nobody can escape death. Despite social status, upbringing, profession, appearance or size, everyone at one point in their life will die. The essay also attempts to convey that life is a series of trials and turbulations that are all leading to that imfamous last day. I have to write a two page reflection on how the moth "embodied the true nature of life." What you read above is all i can come up with, with regards to the reflection. If you have any ideas or advice about what else to add please please post it. The reflection has to be two pages and so far what i've got is not even half a page. I'd really appreciate your comments.

Thank You!

[juliacornwal]

Heavens above, there's more than enough there to write two pages; pad it out a bit. 'The Rich Man in his Castle, the Poor Man at his Gate' - social standing etc., you have the trials and tribulations there. Furthermore, don't forget that Virginia Woolf's views of life were very different from today's. Class consciousness, master/servant, that sort of thing. Well it all makes for your 2 pages!!!!

[idly_enjoys]

Probably will get you an extra mark or two if you mention that the moth/death imagery is common in literature, for example in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' Blanche Dubois is compared to a moth.
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The idea is that we are like moths flitting around something irresistably attractive i.e. the candle, but we are fragile creatures so it kills us. So say 'the symbol of the moth is more complicated than simply saying we cannot escape death, but that in many ways we are the instruments of our own destruction.' Or something like that.

Good luck.