Death of The Moth

“Death of The Moth” is a woman’s realization that the only way to keep her dignity is to take her life before the insanity in her mind takes it for her. Virginia Woolf’s life was one dramatic episode after another. From the time that she was thirteen until the night that she was successful in taking her life she had several mental breakdowns. Surrounded by death at every corner one can see how …

…This is what Virginia felt just before she killed herself. She knew that insanity was going to take her soon. She even stated the fact in her suicide note to her husband. She did not want to die lying on her back. She was going to end her suffering with her mind not possessed with total insanity. She wanted her life to end with a bit a dignity so she ended before it ended her.