![]() ![]() Nineteen Eighty-Four novel by George Orwell. ![]() ![]() We include links for volumes in the public domain. A bit more selfish, but certainly helpful portrayal of rats appears in White’s Charlotte’s Web.īelow we review eight masterpieces of literature that depict rats, some which are from a list compiled by literary scholars as the best rats in literature. Grahame portrays his loveable characters heroically in The Wind in the Willows. Less often rats are depicted in literature positive light, portraying rats being selfless and helpful. However, in Poe’s the Pit and the Pendulum, rats – first portrayed in horror- become heroes as they help the protagonist escape certain death. They are portrayed as a literary device to develop horror, such as in Lovecraft’s The Rats in the Walls or in Camus’ The Plague, and as instruments of torture, as in the Room 101 incident in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. There are an endless number of villainous literary depictions of Rats. Rats are depicted in fiction in both a negative and positive light. Few Rat Facts RatsMania! Rats in Literature ![]()
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