Every living thing, whether human, animal, etc always has to come to an end and die. Everything that has a beginning has an end. In the story, “The Death of the Moth” written by Virginia Woolf, she explains how man is comparable to a moth. A man is like a moth in many ways and its interpretive to each person's perspective. The moth relates to the struggles of a man by, how every living thing tries to fight death, that size matters, and life still goes on.
Woolf explains how every living thing tries to fight death in some way. An example in real life of living people trying to fight death is, when people try to fight sicknesses and diseases like cancer. A moth does not have a long life span so they do not fight death as much as humans do. An example from the story in paragraph 4, “It flashed upon me that he was in difficulties; he could no longer raise himself; his legs struggled vainly” (632). This quote means that she is shocked that he
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Size matters because when you are small you are considered pathetic. In paragraph 3, Woolf explains how pathetic the moth was because of his size (632). The human on the other hand is much bigger and much more fierce than the moth. Size also matters because you can have bigger struggles when you are small. When you are small you are also considered weaker than others. Your ability to do things depends on your size.
Lastly, life still goes on after you die. The world doesn’t just stop after a person dies, everyone still lives their lives. Also, you won’t be remembered forever. An example of this is, in paragraph 5, “Also, when there was nobody to care or to know, this gigantic effort on the part of an insignificant little moth, against a power of such magnitude, to retain what no one else valued or desired to keep, moved one strangely” (633). This means that the whole world does not care if you die, you are small compared to the big