Watership Down Art and Culture Quotes

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Quote #10

And yet there endured the legend that somewhere out over the down there lived a great and solitary rabbit, a giant who drove the elil like mice and sometimes went to silflay in the sky. If ever great danger arose, he would come back to fight for those who honored his name. And mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them—the General who was first cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument: and perhaps it would not have displeased him. (Epilogue.3)

When great rabbits die, their stories may get incorporated into the legends of El-ahrairah and other mythical figures. Woundwort wasn't a very nice guy (now please give us our Understatement of the Year Award), but he was so special and different that he gets remembered in art. And maybe this way, the rabbits will remember his good qualities and try to copy them—and forget about his tyrannical, murderous ways.