The Appreciation of The Death of the Moth
To be honest, I could not understand this article at the very start.It should be said that I could not understand all of the Stream of Consciousne Novels including this one before realizing the writing background of them.
I can just say that I like the following words mightily, it shocked me deeply: “One’s sympathies, of course, were all on the side of life.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.Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead.” “As I
looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder.Just as life had been strange a few minutes
before, so death was now as strange .The moth having righted himself now lay most decently and uncomplainingly composed.O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am.”
After contacting with the writing background, this article by Woolf is very easy to make people think of the Second World War.Compared to the writers who more eager to direct describe people suffering the lives of war, Woolf avoided direct description.The article indirectly reflects the war haze by an insignificant moth, which brings the death of innocent and a sense of helplene to human beings.Why Woolf must go to describe the dying proce of a moth? Just because ofsympathy? It is clear that the meaning of the article to be more deep-seated.We all1
know that the theme of this eay is life and death.It may be difficult to imagine for modern people, but some who was living in the war at that time will link the humble but great moth to his own life.A moth can do through with nature, with the directly fighting with death to display a life can have value, how much more will is a human? I am afraid that this reflection of life and death is what the author really wanted to expre.
The moth in the article, knowing that he is impoible to stack up the call of the nature, but still fight against with death for his own resistance, her courage, her spirit, in our human eyes become more and more great.Such behavior obviously can affect humans to think their own positions in nature and what actions can be taken.
In nature, human beings are really small, but this doesn\'t mean, we will give in to it.We must believe that we can conquer the nature and death as the moth do.Death, in fact, in another sense, is a rebirth.Spirit is always existed.I gue that Woolf\'s purpose is also here, with a moth which has no relation with human to cause human thoughts.
We are in a time of peace, life and death for us, are not as sensitive as those
people who living in World War II.When we are face with difficulties and setbacks, there should be what a kind of attitude, we should give in to it or brave to face it.I believe that when we know how to do that, we also will be respected, and our personality in the hearts of others will become noble.
In a word, no matter it is good or bad, these above are my real thoughts of The Death of the Moth.
