Is Life Significant? Moths can be seen as very insignificant creatures, however the question arises whether or not they really are meaningless. In the two essays "The Death of the Moth" and "Death of a Moth" a moth is used in a very meaningful way in each to express the two writer's feelings. On the surface the essays might seem to be only accounts of the circumstances surrounding the death of each moth, however upon closer inspection the reader can see inconspicuous meanings behind the deaths of these moths and also in the way in which these stories are told. Yet both essays do not contain the same hidden meanings, in fact both prove to be in complete juxtaposition of each other relative to meaning. First off in order to emphasize the differences between the two authors, Annie Dillard (Death of a Moth) and Virginia Woolf's (The Death of the Moth) uses of metaphors and meanings I b....

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