Watership Down (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Adams
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—animal fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Fable, Adventure, Fantasy, Animal tale
- Subjects: Freedom, 1970’s, Family or family life, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Politics, Nature, Escapes, Leadership, Revolutions, Rural or country life, Friendship, Human race, England or English people, Oppression, War, Home, Adventure, Progress, Modernization, Animals, Land settlement, Rabbits
- Locales: England
The Plot
Richard Adams’ Watership Down is an anthropomorphic story showing the effect of humans on nature. As rabbits, heroes Hazel and Fiver are dependent on the countryside for shelter and food, and they live in concert with all other life. Hazel and his companions initially flee their burrows because a developer has decided to build homes on the site of their warren, but they see the effects of human involvement through other encounters, including those with a domesticated warren, a rabbit hutch at a local farm, and a warren that lives in fear of discovery by...
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