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the ethical preaching’s of the texts. The “purpose” (Mitchell, 17) not restricted to moral lessons, in fact purpose is not required at all. When Virginia Woolf first began Flush, she intended the biography merely for the amusement of one of the Bloomsbury group (Smith, 356). While the text clearly grew in meaning during its creation, its inception was purposeless, especially in with regards to morality. Morality was always going to be secondary in Flush as the book is all about innovation. Like most

Michael Cunningham’s “The Hours” tells the story of three women, each from different eras of society, yet connected through the internal conflicts which they face. Laura Brown, one of the novel’s three protagonists, lives the white middle-class American dream. However, throughout the novel her mental health begins to deteriorate due to the oppressive lifestyle which she feels society has forced upon her. The Virginia Woolf portrayed by Cunningham, was in fact historically accurate to the original

Virginia Woolf's essay "Death of the Moth" gave me an in depth look into how death is inevitable and how nature “dies” just like us. Death of the Moth” thoroughly describes how she sees a month trapped in a fragment of her window and is fighting for his life. The speaker seems willing to help the moth, but then further leans to the idea that the moth is trying to escape death. Witnessing the death of the moth, she feels that this is exactly what the “circle of life” entails. Despite the feeling of

Literary Response to “The Moths” “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes is a fictional short story about the narrator’s personal hardship of watching her grandmother die slowly because of natural causes. Although, the name of this story is “The Moths” don’t let this fool you. In this story, references to moths are only used twice. Using the moths, the author is able to convey a theme, help create the tone, and resolve the central conflict. I believe that the moths are actually being used in this

It is often said that death is an inescapable inevitability in life. In Virginia Woolf’s narration “The Death of the Moth,” the struggle between life and death is depicted exactly as such—a battle that is not, in the end, ever won. Woolf utilizes rhetorical devices such as tone, fragmentation within the narration, and metaphors to convey this message and invoke the feeling of pity in her reader. As the tone shifts throughout the piece, Woolf’s metaphors and stylistic choices strengthen and drive

Virginia Woolf uses the respective meals served during her visit at the university to illustrate the variation between the two schools. Woolf makes a powerful distinction between the female and male schools through such adjacency. Woolf, in regard to the poverty of the women's school, and therefore their position in society, uses diverse structure, diction and imagery to differentiate the descriptions of the two meals. During Virginia's visit at the two colleges, she experienced two distinct

Analytical writing #2 In Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth,” the word choice and tone she uses is closely related to the inevitability of death that trails all life. One term that Woolf emphasizes on in this essay is the word “pity.” Woolf describes the feeling of pity towards the moth while viewing the moth’s movements. The word ‘pity’ means the feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others. The same way in that one may feel sorrow or compassion towards

feeling for Sally “was no like one’s feelings for a man” and how their romance “had a quality which could exist [only] between women” (Woolf 34). As for Woolf, she had a secret affair with Vita Sackville West who was another publishing author at Bloomsbury. The two shared love letters for almost 10 years without either of their husbands ever finding out. According to an article published by Kelly Carlin from James Madison University, it has rumored that it is not true “whether or not Mrs. Dalloway’s

The movement of Virginia Woolf 's "Kew Gardens" is quite the mutineer towards the traditional writing format of a beginning, middle and ending. Although, the story does eventually end, Woolf creates a space in time within this story 's reality where there really is no beginning, nor a way to end it. We just become in the moment, infinitely moving through space and time, observing all tiny details around us. To analyze this story, we have to think of it as an abstract painting, and assume there will

painting at the tum of the twentieth century. Woolf's step in this direction in literature shows the influence of Roger Fry, particularly the Post - Impressionist Exhibition and other influential artists that Woolf came into contact with through Bloomsbury and mutual acquaintances. These artists inspired Woolf to use elements of both post-impressionism and cubism verbally to make her stories like paintings that move, clear and distinct but always shifting. She incorporates both the emotional elements