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Leader In Watership Down

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The novel Watership Down features many different leaders. Two leaders that are extremely different are Hazel, the leader of the Watership Down rabbits, and General Woundwort, the leader of Efrafa. They differ in multiple ways, but especially in how each rabbit assumes the role as leader, each rabbit’s methods and styles of leadership, and how each rabbit views himself as a leader. The two characters are unlike one another for numerous reasons, including the ones stated above. First, Hazel and General Woundwort assume the leadership role in distinctively different manners. Hazel allows it to form of its own accord, and lets the other rabbits decide him as their leader before he does. He never refers to himself as “Chief Rabbit” until the others

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