Many great authors studying human nature distinguished themselves during the time period between imperialism and World War II. Among these authors were George Orwell and Virginia Woolf. Their study of human nature is particularly visible in some stories written by each author respectively. Orwell's "Shooting the Elephant" and Woolf's "The Death of the Moth". In each of these stories the respective author uses animals to represent their complex ideas about the nature of life, humans and the entire world. In the story "The Death of the Moth", Virginia Woolf illustrates the universal struggle between life and death. He briefly describes the courage of the struggle, the struggle of life against death, but he also determines the futility of this struggle. Virginia Woolf's purpose in writing was to portray the pathetic of life in the face of death. Woolf's conclusion, “death is stronger than me,” forms the crux of her argument. Over the course of the piece, he built his thesis, bringing his concept of the power of death to the reader's emotional states. The piece would begin...