Your view on the allegory in Watership Down book?

[KillerRabbit]

The Council Rabbit seems like the most atheistic one. He has given up all hope and relies on false security in the hole. (Though atheist philosophy tends to rely on materialism interms of world building)
Then you have the SS Police rabbits which is Owslafa. They are more authoritarians like USSR, Nazis or whatever tyrrant you can think of.

Personally i think the whole story is origin story of Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What do you think?

Overall the book deals about leadership roles, struggles and such... with bunnies

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I think you’re the poster boy for the Sad Little Troll Society. And the origin of the Rabbit of Caerbannog dates from 1345.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

The Council Rabbit seems like the most atheistic one. He has given up all hope and relies on false security in the hole. (Though atheist philosophy tends to rely on materialism interms of world building)
Then you have the SS Police rabbits which is Owslafa. They are more authoritarians like USSR, Nazis or whatever tyrrant you can think of.

Personally i think the whole story is origin story of Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What do you think?

Overall the book deals about leadership roles, struggles and such... with bunnies

I never read it as an allegory about atheism or economic philosophy. I see it more thematically concerned with ecology and the incessant march of technology, and how that march impacts nature. Technology is seen as a harbinger of death and authoritarianism, while living in nature is held up as freedom. Fiver is definitely a medicine-man to his fellows.

[Nay_Sayer]

Hi sock, Bye sock! *waves*

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The Council Rabbit seems like the most atheistic one. He has given up all hope and relies on false security in the hole. (Though atheist philosophy tends to rely on materialism interms of world building)
Then you have the SS Police rabbits which is Owslafa. They are more authoritarians like USSR, Nazis or whatever tyrrant you can think of.

Personally i think the whole story is origin story of Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What do you think?

Overall the book deals about leadership roles, struggles and such... with bunnies

I never read it as an allegory about atheism or economic philosophy. I see it more thematically concerned with ecology and the incessant march of technology, and how that march impacts nature. Technology is seen as a harbinger of death and authoritarianism, while living in nature is held up as freedom. Fiver is definitely a medicine-man to his fellows.

Richard Adams says there’s no intended ‘allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls.’

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

I never read it as an allegory about atheism or economic philosophy. I see it more thematically concerned with ecology and the incessant march of technology, and how that march impacts nature. Technology is seen as a harbinger of death and authoritarianism, while living in nature is held up as freedom. Fiver is definitely a medicine-man to his fellows.

Richard Adams says there’s no intended ‘allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls.’

Boru

Right. At bottom it's an adventure tale, a quest. Like many stories, themes can bubble up from underneath, even without the author having planned them.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Richard Adams says there’s no intended ‘allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls.’

Boru

Right. At bottom it's an adventure tale, a quest. Like many stories, themes can bubble up from underneath, even without the author having planned them.

Oh, no doubt at all. The value of a story primarily lies in what readers take away from it. For some readers, ‘Moby Dick’ is about the price of hubris and man’s eternal struggle to bend nature to his will. For others, it boils down to ‘an angry sperm whale will fuck you up.’

Boru

[Pat Mustard]

The Council Rabbit seems like the most atheistic one. He has given up all hope and relies on false security in the hole. (Though atheist philosophy tends to rely on materialism interms of world building)
Then you have the SS Police rabbits which is Owslafa. They are more authoritarians like USSR, Nazis or whatever tyrrant you can think of.

Personally i think the whole story is origin story of Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What do you think?

Overall the book deals about leadership roles, struggles and such... with bunnies

I know I'm responding to a dead account (although probably a sock), but I'd like to point out that both Nazi Germany and (post-1941) the USSR were christian countries with an officially sanctioned version of christianity.

[Rev. Rye]

The real origin of the Killer Rabbit:



And, yes, that’s an actual carving from the façade of Notre Dame de Paris, and I hope it survived the 2019 fire.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The real origin of the Killer Rabbit:



And, yes, that’s an actual carving from the façade of Notre Dame de Paris, and I hope it survived the 2019 fire.

Golly, I wish I had known that 7 posts ago.

Boru