Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sacrifice Freedom
The rabbits in Cowslip's warren are willing to sacrifice their freedom and risk death in exchange for a warm, dry place to live and a constant supply of food. Cowslip tells Buckthorn that rabbits need "the will to accept their fate" (p. 114). Why do Hazel and his group of rabbits refuse to accept this way of life? Why does Cowslip later instigate an attack on Captain Holly and Bluebell and kill their companion?
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I think the rabbits were willing to sacrifice their freedom because as Fiver put it "They forgot how to be rabbits." Cowslip feels that as long as he has good food and a warm home, nothing could go wrong. Everything is going wrong because those rabbits are doing everything except for being a rabbit! I think Hazel and the group refuse to live this way because Cowslip's warren is basically acting like turkey's waiting to be butchered. They're being fattened up until they're caught in a snare. Hazel's group want to be free to live like rabbits, not like the rabbits in Cowslip's warren. I think Hazel and Bigwig finally realized that Fiver was right and they need to leave the warren. Cowslip attacked Holly because Cowslip thought that Hazel and their group were giving other rabbits in the warren dangerous ideas. If everyone left the warren except for a few rabbits, then Cowslip's thinking he'll be the next to get snared.
I think they are ready to sacrifice their freedom because they think themselves to be 'better'. They attacked Holly when they found out he was like Hazel, because in the face of other rabbits they feel very shallow.
The rabbits refuse to except this way of life because they are all controlled. The place that the rabbits want to live in is a place that is not controlled. Cowslip later places an attack on Captain Holly and Bluebell because he believes that Hazel is giving bad ideas to the rabbits of the warren. He thinks that because of this some of his citizens might try to escape and be snared and that he might be next.
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