Death Of A Moth Rhetorical Analysis

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“Life asked death, ‘why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth’” (source unknown). Some people have a difficult time accepting death, which is why most live as if they'll never die, they ignore death, but death always comes. In the essay “The Death of a Moth” by Virginia Woolf, she describes her point of view as she watches a moth die. Woolf acknowledges that people shouldn't fight death saying that “death is stronger than I am” (Woolf par 5). She uses pathos and imagery to appeal to the reader's emotions. Woolf describes her experience watching the death of a moth with stark imagery that is hard to miss, first she goes on to describe how the moth looks-as if she’s introducing
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