Watership Down

“I’m so late! I’m so very, very late!”- This is one of the most recognized phrases said by the peculiar White Rabbit from the well-known story, ‘Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.’ Just like the White Rabbit, the characters from the amazing novel, Watership Down, are of rabbit origin and have the ability to speak in the form of a human. Even though in reality we know that rabbits do not have the capability to speak, the creatures of this story are based on a fantasy and therefore are living in a different time and place than us. But this doesn’t mean that just because it has been set in a different time and place its themes aren’t relevant to us today. Watership Down revolves around the central themes of survival, friendship and belief. All in which are relevant to the issues that we deal with today.

Watership Down is an enchanting-fantasy novel based on real places, which was written in the mid-sixties by Richard Adams. It involves a group of rabbits th...