“He flew vigorously to one corner of his compartment, and, after waiting there for a second, flew across to the other” (Woolf, 125). Virginia Woolf, the writer of the essay, ‘The Death of the Moth’, describes how the moth flies around the window at the beginning part of this essay. At first glance, this sentence seems as a simple observation of the flutter of the moth, which is a small and trivial creature. However, Virginia is expressing her idea of the gap between the outside world and the inside world with a moth’s little movement. At the introduction of the essay, the writer portrays the outside world with rooks, the ploughmen, and the horses as a gigantic, extensive space. Compare to that giant universe, a moth’s world, which is the inside
