the moth exemplified her own personal struggles in life. As the moth’s “body relaxed and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over” (par. 5 Woolf) and submits to death. The full acceptance of death may have been a justification for Woolf’s own suicide, expressing that the individual cannot always keep fighting the battle against evil. Her own personal life may have also been implied when she states that “there was nobody to care or to know” (par. 5 Woolf), suggest that she herself did not have
The Development of Dante in Inferno Every civilization in history has made an effort, of some nature, to try and understand the world around them more thoroughly through religion or philosophy of some nature. Not least of these was medieval Rome or, for that matter, any of the warring city-states surrounding it in an ancient and divided Italy. Although each city-state had a religious allegiance to Rome and the authority of its leader, the Pope, Florence, Venice, and Naples never wanted to fully submit