Watership

Analysis of Richard Adams' Watership Down Richard Adams novel, Watership Down, is the account of a group of rabbits trip to search out a new location to inhabit. After escaping the Sandleford Warren because of one rabbit’s instincts, nearly a dozen rabbits cross virgin country. Along the way, they run across a few other warrens. These places exhibit a completely different way of living to the fleeing group. What they learn is vital when they develop their own warren. From these places they manage

Evil takes a prominent role in the classic adventure novel Watership Down, and the author, Richard Adams, introduces many old and new reactions to evil as the story progresses. Richard Adams makes his point very clear, there is evil everywhere on Earth, and it can even be present the downs of the English countryside. Richard Adams explores this idea of evil through many different forms: foxes, badgers, birds, humans, and the earth itself. The novel shows the readers these responses so, in turn, the

First there are many different different systems of power in the book Watership Down. There are four different warens with very different systems of power. The Sandleford warren is a warren where power is those with a title. The Watership Down and Cowslip warrens are both warrens where power is those with wit. The Efrafa warren is a warren where power is strength. Power is distributed between the rabbits by those with wit, strength, and a title. Additionally In the Sandleford warren power is given

Conflict of Styles     The success of any group is determined by those who lead it. In Watership Down by Richard Adams, a band of rabbits leave their warren when one of them feels that danger is coming. They encounter several struggles before they settle down and create the Watership warren. An attempt to extract does from another warren called Efrafa starts a rivalry between the two groups, lead by Hazel and General Woundwort respectively. Hazel and Woundwort are two vastly different leaders. Hazel

1. Watership Down takes place in Sandleford Warren, Enbrone Crossing, Newton Common, and Cowslips Warren, Frith Copse. In the front of the book it has a map which shows where the rabbits have lived and traveled. The rabbits first lived at the Sandleford Warren; however one of the rabbits, Fiver, had a vision that danger was coming. A group of rabbits went with Fiver and his brother, Hazel. The first headed toward Enbrone Crossing. “It was in fact the little river Enbrone, twelve to fifteen feet wide

“Running our risks for us are you- like El-ahrairah” (Adams 23), a rabbit named Dandelion compares Hazel to the ideal rabbit, El-ahrairah, making him proud. Throughout the novel, Watership Down, Hazel often demonstrates his El-ahrairah-like skills as chief. He saves his warren time and time again with his martyr personality, quick-wit and his self-assurance. All these character traits are most like El-ahrairah as it is seen in each of his tales. Therefore Hazel is El-ahrairah for his warren because

Watership Down, written by Richard Adams in 1970, is a story centered around rabbits. The two main characters are Hazel and Fiver. When Fiver senses that there is danger in the warren, Hazel and Fiver go to the leader of the warren, Threarah and tell him that all of the rabbits must leave the warren because of danger. Threarah says it is too risky to move all over the rabbits and insist that there is no danger. Regardless, Hazel and Fiver decide to leave the warren and look for a new home. Along

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power,” says Lao-Tzu. The rabbits in Watership Down that are aspiring leaders deal with a constant battle that relates perfectly to Lao-Tzu’s quote. Some gain power through their stature, others through their wit, but the truly effective leaders use the ideal attributes both from themselves and the rabbits they are leading. The desire for power in this novel is exhibited through

(Interesting title at work) (Attention grabbing quote at work). Watership Down by Richard Adams is a timeless tale told from multiple perspectives within a group of rabbits venturing into the unknown in hopes of finding a new home. With great leadership and an unique ability shared between a pair of brothers, the band of rabbits come upon new lands to call home. Hazel, brother of Fiver and leader of the herd of rabbits, goes through many different personal changes as a rabbit, from being a clueless

In the novel, “Watership Down,” Richard Adams, Adams includes three warrens in the novel. First, we come across the Sandleford warren. Next, is Hazel’s warren. The final warren is Cowslip’s warren. All three warrens have their similarities and differ. One way Cowslip’s warren differs from Sandleford and Hazel’s warren is that it is perceived as a utopia. The reason for this is because the rabbits there are strange rabbits. These rabbits are fed by a farmer; only to get eaten at the end. But these