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Watership Down
animals and birds, one of who was El-ahrairah. El-ahrairah had so many wives and children that he had a race of his own. One day, Frith told El-ahrairah if he cannot handle his people, he should control them himself. Of course, El-ahrairah being the stubborn rabbit he is, disagreed. And so, made Frith mad and causing him to make changes to the world to kill El-ahrairah’s people and eventually him.’ To the rabbits, this is a belief to them. To other living creatures it may seem like a myth or even so, a load of bull. But under any circumstances we cannot say anything that may offend the believers. This goes for many religions in humanity. If we are Christians we believe in God and Jesus, if we are Buddhist we believe in Buddha, if we are a rabbit we believe in Frith and this tells us that the relation of religion between the novel and humankind is equivalent.
There are many themes in the enthralling novel, Watership Down, which are associated with the work humans do in today’s society. Although the setting of Watership Down has been based on a race of rabbits, their problems, goals and affairs are exactly the same as people living today. The only difference that can be picked out from these two groups is that the author, Richard Adams (who is human), has created the race of talking rabbits. This can only tell us one thing in particular. Anything we write about, talk about and think about, we always relate to the human race, because we have the greatest knowledge about ourselves and it takes a great deal more to try to learn about another species when we cannot communicate with them.