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Essay:Greatest Conservative Novels (view source)
Revision as of 21:35, May 24, 2019
, 21:35, May 24, 2019Figured that Watership Down may be conservative at points. If not, please let me know.
|Children's Literature
|Children's Literature
|1936
|1936
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|''Watership Down''
|Richard Adams
|This book tells of a band of British rabbits led by two brothers, clever leader Hazel and prophetic Fiver, as they journey to a new home when their old home is bulldozed. The book promotes upholding traditions, though the rabbits are not afraid to break tradition once in a while to make their new home (for example, does do most of the digging for their babies, but the bucks decide to dig in their place), thus showing conservatism as being more traditional and slowly being progressive. Authoritarian rule is condemned in the form of the book's villain: General Woundwort, who rules Efrefa with an iron paw, keeping the rabbits safe in Efrefa to the point of them overcrowding and allowing his council to rip the ears of another rabbit named Blackavar for trying to escape. Loyalty and fighting for one's home are shown in a positive light, an example being Bigwig (a friend of Hazel's and an officer in the "Owsla") helping his friends defend their new home and fighting Woundwort himself.
An animated movie based on the book premiered in 1978, as well as an animated TV series in 1999 and a CGI Netflix miniseries in 2018.
|Fantasy
|1972
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