Romantic Ideas in the Allegory Watership Down The novel Watership Down by Richard Adams, like Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queene, is an allegory. Watership Down also embodies many romantic ideas. Fiver, a rabbit who sees visions from Frith, represents the turn toward imagination that occurred in the Romantic period. The rabbits in the novel also value freedom and rebellion against tyranny, two important Romantic ideas. Many of the rabbits that left the Sandleford warren …showed first 75 words of 1005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1005 total…Fiver and Hyzenthlay represent the individualism and imagination that were valued by Romantics. Watership Down also functions as an allegory representing different qualities in humans and different forms of government. The importance of Romantic ideas and their relevance in the modern world is shown in Richard Adams’ 1972 novel, Watership Down. Bibliography Works Cited Adams, Richard. Watership Down. New York: Avon Books, 1972. Sime, Richard and others, Eds. Elements of Literature. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1997.