Myths and Stories In Richard Adams novel Watership Down, he illustrates the prominent use of rabbit’s and stories told in their society. These stories that are told foreshadow events that occur later in the novel. As the book progresses the stories about the legendary El-ahariarah, Firth and the Black Rabbit continue to become more prominent. Each time a new story is told, it revels more into the history of the rabbits, the culture, and the characters’ ability in the stories to authenticate the novel. “Long ago, Firth made the world…..” (Adams 26). By this phrase Adams is able to get across that the rabbit society has a god. The chapter from where the quote is taken from explains how the world began. What is interesting about the creation …show more content…
This is an important aspect to include in the novel because when there is a story that is so fictional it makes it hard to relate it back to reality. And the stories that are told can easily be related back to the real world. One story that adds to the autheniticaticity of the story is when El-ahrairah is trying to defeat The Black Rabbit to protect his people. “My Lord’, replied El-ahrairah, ‘I have come to give you my life. My life for my people.” (Adams 273). The traits that El-ahrairah is showing makes his character more believable in the way that he would die for his people. He loves them so much that he will die so that they may life. This can parallel over to the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus was sent down from Heaven and because he loved his people so much he died for their sins. Another way that the characters are able to authenticate the story is by having a god. Throughout all cultures there are religions that have a head ‘god’. In Watership Down the god Firth is mentioned a lot because he is the god of the sun. It makes the story more natural because there is some sort of high source of power. In this novel you have to buy into the world of rabbits and what all they believe in, so it adds a lot to the story when the reader is able to reflect a story to their own