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Virginia Woolf's The Death Of The Moth
In the essay "The Death of the Moth" Virginia Woolf shows us a traditional battle between life and death. I think that all of us are moths at some points in our lives. We do something without thinking and results. The life is a journey towards death. That's why we should stop sometimes and think. Or everything will go through us and will finish nowhere. I think that this is a symbolism in Virginia Woolf's story about the moth.

It's important to have real goal and not just fly from corner to corner. Be outside the box. It's interesting how this important struggle for the moth was just part of nice and good day. It was important just for small bead, for her it was universal problem. Here we also can find a symbolism as I think. Our problems

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