Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillard (Moth)

The two authors write about the simple death of a moth, as something more complex and intriguing.

The two essays describe in a detail the death of a moth in tow distinguishing ways. The Author Virginia Wolf describes the mouths death as something spiritual, as a natural phenomenon, using a more peaceful tone. She takes the whole essay to describe the death process differently from Anny Dillards moth whos ho’s gruffly already dead.

The death of Virginia’s moth is done in a calm meditative way. Anne Dillards moths death is describes in a more tragic and Goth way. She uses less attractive and reverend words. The two moths are also seen differently from the way their death is displayed. Virginias Moth is seen with pity and as a heroic figure as his small essence struggle with the strong force of death. “One could only watch the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom. This sentence of Virginia is an example of the delicacy of language she uses with respect and admiration she feel towards this creature.

Anne Dillard in her sentence “And her head jerked in spasms, making a spattering noise; her antennae crisped and burnt away and her heaving mouthparts cracked like pistol fire. This is an example of how Anne gives the reader, the feeling that the creature is not an insignificant creature and that death is stronger than it. Differently from Virginias Moth we can fill vividly the moths suffering as it seems to suffers of a more tragic death. After Virginia describes the moth’s long and struggling journey to its death she looks at it as a heroic figure. Anne Dillard differently doesn’t even notest the creatures existence.

It’s amazing how such the simple death of a moth can be describes such in dept in different prospective and conditions our view towards each creature.

By viewing the death of a creature of such a low level of signifagance, such as a moth, it is amazing to see how Virginia Woolf and Annie Dilard alike were able to put on new perspectives of entering death and the vitilaty of life. While in Virginia Woolf's version of The Death of a Moth, she mainly used the moth's death to focused on the feeble attempts made by humans to try to escape the inevitible fate of death. In contrast, Annie Dilard took a completely opposite approach by conveying death in grim fashion; which ultimately gave and portryed a more brutal side to death.