Response

Everyday we see struggle, some keep fighting and succeed but others fight and fail. In Virginia’s Woolf’s ‘Death of a Moth’ we experience the latter. This moth tries so hard to succeed but eventually fails and dies. If the moth didn’t try to escape then it might of lived, but its relentless struggle led to its demise. Virginia Woolf’s feels a connection to this moth, she feels like she can see success but something is stopping her from reaching her goal, similar to the moth being able to see freedom but the window pane is stopping it from reaching its goal. Everybody has some invisible force stopping us from doing something, be it fear or the risk of embarrassment.  This text is all about the struggle between life and death, if we stop trying we will die. What I believe Virginia Woolf is trying to say is don’t give up, even if the odds are against you. Even though Virginia Woolf was in a dark place when writing this text it doesn’t mean that she condoning suicide.