Anthropomorphism

In light of the description of anthropomorphism, I think it is only fitting to use the novels Charlotte?s Web and Watership Down to demonstrate them. While both of these novels show animals behaving in different manners, they are both uncharacteristic of normal animal behaviour. Charlotte?s Web shows animals behaviour as primarily human while Watership Down demonstrates animals behaving mostly as animals. This said, we see that both these novels show their characters with human traits, however they are all confined to their physical limitations as animals. A perfect example of this is Charlotte, from Charlotte?s Web.

However the activities, physical and mental, actions and behaviour demonstrated by the rabbits in Watership Down are typically the things that humans would expect from rabbits. This said, Charlotte?s behaviour in Charlotte?s Web, is what we might expect to see from a human being. Her spinning of the web with a word or two in it is not common activities for spiders. Whil...