Moths - Cells or More?

When I was in 6th grade science, we looked through a microscope at a leaf, and saw the cells that it was made of. We all thought how crazy it was that leaves are made of tiny little boxes, but then our teacher took it a step further and blew our minds completely. He grabbed a toothpick, scraped the inside of his cheek, applied it to the microscope slide and put it under the microscope for us to see. We once again saw cells, and slowly we began to wonder, what else is made of cells? Eventually we realized that not just leaves or just cheeks are made of cells, but all organic matter is made of these tiny little divisions. Where cells are just a small part of life, the moths in "The Death of the Moth" are representative of a small part of society. Each day is a struggle "against a power of such magnitude", and just like the cell, the world can deal with one less moth. Woolf uses the moth to comment on how human life is treated as dispensable by big corporations, and how like a scrape, new cells can be grown back to replace previous ones. Just how the moth is bland, beige colors, factory workers dressed in beige clothes slowly work their lives away only to be replaced by the umbrella corporations. While cells might not be entirely unique, they each serve a purpose towards the whole, and each person serves a purpose towards society. Woolf uses the insignificant moth to tie the connection, and to motivate her audience to add purpose back into their lives.