Watership Down Themes

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Watership Down by Richard Adams is about a colony of rabbits leaving there warren an the quest to start a new one. Although the topic of the book seems strange there are many themes throughout that connect to everyday human life. A few of the most important themes are home, leadership and nature. All three of these themes are extremely important but they all connect to one theme, home. Home to the rabbits that follow Hazel is a warren that has been destroyed but, home to the Efrans is very different. Nature is an obvious theme throughout the story because rabbits live and travel through nature. Leadership is not as obvious to someone who has not read the book but leadership plays a large role in the plot and how the world works for these rabbits. Overall all three themes from this book all connect home as a major important theme. Leadership is seen during almost every step of the plot in Watership Down. During many points of this story a leader is needed and takes charge and if they …show more content…

Home is what the rabbits were looking for throughout the whole book making it an important plot point in many ways. Leadership connects to hoe in this story because even when the leaders could not find home they tried to make one for the other rabbits. When Woundwort was attacking the new warren Bigwig took change and made everyone else safe before he thought of him self, this decision could have been terrible for Bigwig but because of his leadership skills he steps forward. Nature connects to home because nature is home for these rabbits. One of the most important things to them is to have a natural and safe life witch they can only have with a handmade warren or home. Nature also can be scary for rabbits and make them need and want a home. Although they are three separate themes all three give the story the proper storyline to be a properly plotted out story. Without these themes the story would have no body or any interesting

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