Charlotte's Web Themes
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Friendship and love are the central themes of Charlotte's Web. It is through the love of Fern and Charlotte that Wilbur is able to go on living, both in the beginning of the novel and in its ending. Along with friendship comes sacrifice.
The moral of Charlotte's Web is that true friendship is immeasurably valuable.
Charlotte’s Web Themes
Themes and Colors Friendship and Sacrifice Theme Icon Mortality and Rebirth Theme Icon The Natural World Theme Icon Growing Up Theme Icon
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Friendship and Sacrifice
E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web centers around the tender, life-changing friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte. Fittingly, the book’s central theme is friendship—specifically the ways in which true friendship often involves self-sacrifice. Throughout his classic children’s novel about the sacredness of kindness, love, and solidarity, White uses the many different kinds of friendships at the heart of the story to suggest that the rarest and truest of friends.