While the book is told through the rabbits’ perspective, it gives the most human like view on what it is like to survive as rebels escaping from their corrupt society.ĭespite having talking animals, this book was very far from just a children’s novel and its dark themes could be more understandable amongst adults. These encounters include struggles to find females to start their own warren, meeting a warren that is believed to be safe, but is actually giving in to human needs and even saving other rabbits from their own police state-ridden warren. When the chief ignores their request, Fiver and Hazel, along with nine other rabbits, decide to travel to find a safer area to settle.Īs the rabbits embark on their journey, they face encounters that unthinkable for rabbits to go through. When he tells his older brother Hazel this news, they decide to warn the chief rabbit that they need to relocate. This vision shows that the area in which the warren inhabits is going to be turned into homes for humans. The story begins when a young rabbit named Fiver envisions his home and warren being brutally destroyed. Richard Adams discusses the issues in society in his 1972 novel titled “Watership Down.” However, Adams discusses these issues through the eyes of rabbits giving the story allegorical symbolism.
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