Charlotte's Web and Watership Down.
In light of the description of anthropomorphism, I think it is only fitting to use the novels Charlotte's Web and Watership Down to demonstrate them. While both of these novels show animals behaving in different manners, they are both uncharacteristic of normal animal behaviour. Charlotte's Web shows animals behaviour as primarily human while Watership Down demonstrates animals behaving mostly as animals. This said, we see that both these novels show their characters with human traits, however they are all confined to their physical limitations as animals. A perfect example of this is Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web. However the activities, physical and mental, actions and behaviour demonstrated by the rabbits in Watership Down are typically the things that humans would expect from rabbits. This said, Charlotte's behaviour in Charlotte's Web, is what we might expect to see from a human being. Her spinning of the web with a word or two in it is not common activities for spiders. While examining the animal's actions, partially sheds light on the stories that we are reading. It helps unravel the ideas and advance the plot. It does not however, give us insight into the behaviour, specifically the god-like actions that demo
While Charlotte is only a spider, she uses the ability that she has (spinning webs) to demonstrate some human actions. The ability to spin a web in such words as "Some Pig". While to a child this might not seem to be as thought provoking as adults make it out to be, it is. The behavior that Charlotte exhibits is the single action that saves Wilbur life for the second time the first time that Wilbur's life was saved was by Fern. Although the reasons that Fern Saved Wilbur's life was for very different reasons that Charlotte's. As examined in the reading pack, Fern was going through a stage in her life where little girls like to mother and care for smaller and needier objects. Our protagonist, Hazel, has a younger brother Fiver. Fiver was the runt of the litter and its constantly being watched over by Hazel. While in the does provide us with some early insight into the characters, it is not till much later on that we are given a full scope off all the characters and their behaviour. This said that it takes us almost to the completion of the book to have a greater understanding of the characters and their roles in their rabbit society. nstrate anthropomorphism in both these novels. While al
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