Most Powerful Rabbits In Watership Down

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In Watership down there are a lot of powerful rabbits. Some have intelligence some have strength, and some are weak and are not powerful in any way. The strongest, most intelligent, an most powerful rabbit is Thearah, chief rabbit of the Eferfran Owsla. Thearah is chief of the smartest warren. This gives him a lot of intelligence an ideas, that he doesn’t necessarily have to think of or create himself. Rabbits from this warren can plan things out easily an can make smart plans, as shown here: "Now you have to hop to the side , then to the other side. scratch with your legs- that's right, splendid- cock your ears and then go straight on- ah! Here we are now and now:" (pg. 345) The rabbits are smart an don’t need bigger stronger rabbits like woundwort. …show more content…

Eferfran Owsla may not be the strongest warren, but they are a strong warren. They are probably the second strongest warren. With their intelligence and strength, they are the most powerful warren. Even other warrens think that their strong:: "The Efrafan Owsla are no joke, believe me. They're all picked for size and strength and there's nothing they don't know about moving in wet and darkness." (pg. 240) With Thearah in charge of all of them, he is in charge of the most powerful warren which makes him most powerful. Thearah is a very wise rabbit, the smartest one in the book. He figured out how to run his warren to his advantage, all of the rabbits in the Owsla do. You can see that he can rig everything so that he benefits: " 'You can't call you life your own: and in return you have safety - if it's worth having at the price you pay.' 'As well as the Owsla, they have what they call a council, and each of the Council rabbits has something special he looks after...' 'The Chief is a rabbit named Woundwort: General Woundwort, they call him' (pg. 233). Here ha makes everything seem bad so that they will pay him for

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