Getting Started - ENG 103 - Critical Thinking / Argument Writing - Watership Down - Professor Walker

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Watership Down
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces.
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With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, WATERSHIP DOWN is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.

Possible Themes

Possible Themes:

Leadership
Power structures in government
- Cowslips warren
- Efrafa
- Watership Down
- The original warren
Community
Freedom or Agency
Otherness and Accessibility
- Fiver
- Silverweed
Immigration / Pioneers / Colonizer / Diaspora
Prophecy / Premonitions / Vision
- Role of religion or prophet
Gender roles
- Feminism
- Strength in leadership
Destruction and Development
- Gentrification pg 157
- Recreation
- Social Spaces
Culture
- Trickster tales/ fables/ oral poetry
- Respect for previous generations
- Mannerism/ protocols

ENG 103 - Critical Thinking / Argument Writing - Watership Down - Professor Walker: Getting Started

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Watership Down Streaming Video from Kanopy

Possible Themes