Rabbit (from Winnie the Pooh): Puritanism

      Anyone familiar with Disney's Winnie the Pooh films will immediately recognize Rabbit as the stuffy, oh-so-superior, self appointed leader of the Hundred Acre Wood.
     While I'm not saying that all Puritans are stuffy and annoying, Puritanism is defined as follows: scrupulous moral rigor, especially hostile to social pleasures and indulgences and/or extreme, often excessive strictness in moral or religious matters, esp. rigid austerity.
     Let's break it down. Rabbit is regularly the "leader" of the group. He makes the rules, he decides the proper ways to behave. Just like Rabbit, the leaders of Puritan culture set up the laws and practices of the society. And anyone who differed from these accepted norms was ostracized.
    Rabbit shares this Puritan trait. This can be seen by the way he treats Tigger, a character who does not fit the mold created by Rabbit. 
    One of Rabbit's main criticisms of Tigger is his bouncing. The activity which accomplishes nothing besides providing Tigger with joy, is frivolous and unwelcome by Rabbit. In this way he exemplifies the Puritan hostility toward pleasures and indulgences.
    For all of these reasons, Rabbit is a representation of Puritanism.