Literary Qualities
The success of Watership Down results from several stylistic features. The first technique is the use of epigraphs at the beginning of each chapter. These […]
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Social Sensitivity
Adams’s tribute to the English countryside is less pastoral than ecological. His account of rabbit habits and habitat reflects the ecosystem of a rural landscape […]
Topics for Discussion
1. Why do the rabbits believe that it is necessary to leave Sandleford Warren? 2. Which is your favorite rabbit? Which is your least favorite? […]
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Watch the movie Watership Down and compare it to the novel. 2. Pick several of the epigraphs and explain how they relate to their […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Though many readers of Watership Down hoped for a sequel, Adams has so far not obliged them. Perhaps he believes that part of the charm […]
About the Author
By the time he died on August 13, 1946, in London, Herbert George Wells was admired as a prophet and as an important social philosopher […]
Themes and Characters
The War of the Worlds reflects some of Wells’s social concerns, although it is not as heavily laden with social commentary as The Time Machine. […]
Literary Qualities
At the time Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, science had become the subject of much public debate. During this period, the natural sciences […]