Home

A major theme in Watership Down is home. The rabbits are searching for a new home, which they find early on in the book, but it is not a real home because they don't have any does. the rest of the book they spend searching for does and trying to better their home. There are many different versions of home in the story as well.  The rabbits run into several different warrens, each are very different. One the rabbits call The Warren of Snares because there is a farmer who lays snares, and the rabbits who are in the warren know that, but they just except it as a way of life, it really isn't a home at all because the rabbits are all living in fear, not knowing when they are going to die. This song is very relevant to this theme in the book.