Death Of The Moth Rhetorical Analysis

What is the difference between being hopeful or hopeless? Some define hopeful as being optimistic. To be hopeful is to be inspired or driven towards future events. Hope is something that keeps humanity from giving up too easily. It’s the little something inside of people who tells them there’s still a shot, keep trying, but at the same time there could be an absence of hope. When you are hopeless it is a totally different feeling. Hopeless, instead of creating a feeling of inspiration, often fills someone with despair about something. When someone is hopeless it increases the thoughts of giving up like it’s too late. These words embodied are within the pages of “The Death of the Moth”. Although they both are present, the hopefulness in this …show more content…
Starting off into this passage, the author writes “with his narrow hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour, seemed to be content with life” (Woolf 1). The author spent no time delaying the feelings, following a vivid description of a moth she automatically lets readers know the moth is content with life. Content has a very basic meaning. It means that the moth is not bothered by his life, it is something he is ok with. The day-to-day routine by the moth is something he has come to enjoy. Despite the fact the moth does not do much in his travels, there is never any excitement, at the end of it all, everything is just fine to him. That is something that inspires, that shows even if things aren’t as great as they could be, it is still alright. The moth couldn’t do everything in the world but “What he could do he did” (Woolf 2). Even though what he could do was very limited, whatever he could do he made sure he did it. He took the effort to get every bit out of his day, he made sure he would experience all that he could. He had the drive to not be stopped or give up on anything he knew he could carry out, and that is simply