Virginia Woolf's Symbolic Moth

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The author uses many symbolisms on this elaborated essay, in fact the moth represents a human being struggling with life and the inevitable end in death, unnoticed to the rest of humanity as our everyday living could be, she gives a dramatic tone to the narrative work giving the readers some hope and faith about the insect's salvation. Woolf uses a narration style on this work, is effective and she makes it personal, she wants the reader to empathize with the symbolic and insignificant moth, introduced to us as a “small, and so simple form of the energy”, probably as the world eye a single person, (after all, this is what we are when isolated from the rest of the people).Besides, she describes the movements across the window the same as