Compare And Contrast The Spider And The Wasp

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Alexander Petrunkevitch’s story, “The Spider and the Wasp” carries a unique outlook on life through insightful diction that invokes one’s personal ideas and thoughts, while Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of a Moth” portrays a muted tone with familiar diction that makes it understandable. “The Spider and the Wasp” creatively sets a vivid scene with creative diction that lays out a deep purpose. The repetition of “victim”, and “hairs” helps display Petrunkevitch’s idea of fate vs freewill. Victim appears many times, creating an essence that the wasp is the antagonist while the tarantula is a feeble spider unable to defend themselves. Yet, the tarantula just does not attempt to defend itself. It knows its demise is looming, and appears that it

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