Your view on the allegory in Watership Down book?

[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.