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Crane manifest this maturity and growth when he says,”[Henry] had burned several times to enlist. Tales of great movements shook the land. They might not be distinctly Homeric, but there seemed to be much glory in them. He had read of marches, sieges, conflict, and he had longed to see it all. His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds”(Crane 4). In this early description it shows how innocent and immature Henry was. His mind was not fully developed to comprehend the travesties and gore found in war. The propaganda he read, illustrated great and glorious battles, just as those described by the Greek epic writer, Homer. This alludes to that of the great tales of the Trojan War as described by Homer, being a great and glorious altercation. However, Crane juxtaposes Henry’s earlier perspective of war to that of Henry’s new reality as he states,” [Henry] had rid himself of the sickness of battle. The sultry nightmare was in the past. He had been an animal blistered and sweating in the heat and pain of war. He turned now with a lover’s thirst to images of tranquil skies, fresh meadows, cool brooks— an existence of soft and eternal peace”(Crane 155). This proves that Henry fully matured. This can be seen as he describes battle as a “sickness”(Crane 155) and “nightmare”(Crane 155); thus,

Crane’s approach to writing about the war was fresh because, of the fact that we were basically inside the heads of one of the soldiers(henry). We could feel how he felt and we knew his fears. Besides that Crane was blunt about how disorganized the war was.

In the beginning of the book, the author describes Henry’s beliefs about the war. He thinks war is about the glory soldiers receive or dying a hero’s death. As he gets into the first battle, he is suddenly faced with the reality. Passing be dead soldiers and watching the battle before him causes Henry to flee. As he is running away, he happens to stumble upon a rotting corpse, this makes the realities become even more clear. Shaken from the encounter, he moves on.

In the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry has a conflict of individual vs. self as he struggles to mature at first when confronted with the realities of war. We see Henry be mesmerized by the glories of being a soldier but he does not truly understand what it means to be a soldier fighting in a conflict such as the Civil War. He matures and develops throughout his exposure to warfare and understands what it means to be a warrior. This is the central point in understanding why he fights with the other soldiers the first battle, yet he flees when the second battle ensues.

1. Crane appeared to be enthusiastic, as he used a fresh approach, to write about the war. There are two quotes, from the story, which, exactly, reveal this. From the first of the quotes, ("...As the landscape charged from brown to green, the the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors..."), we can tell, that something exciting, in a dramatic way was going on. We can, also, begin to see, that the army seemed to be fighting for something big, since it is mentioned, in the text, that they were awakened, suddenly. The army was fighting, for something they, probably, wanted, badly, as we can see, that the army "began to tremble with eagerness"). The second quote, from the story, which reveals Crane's fresh approach, was ("He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend...").

      In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane explores the theme of courage and heroism in depth. He develops these themes through the main character, Henry Fleming. Henry is a naïve young man faced with the harsh realities of war, in this book, some argue that Henry is transformed into a heroic "quiet manhood" while others see Henry as the same young man who ran from battle in the beginning of the book. I think Henry doesn't change, his heroic status acquired at the end of the book isn't truly him, instead he merely is motivated by fear of dying and being rejected by his fellow soldiers.

Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage to depict realistic depiction of war and violence. He sought to transform events from the Civil War (which happened three decades earlier) into everyday depictions of an ordinary, young soldier. Although he did not participate in the actual events of the Civil War, Crane delivered an imagination of circumstances that were precise and accurate in description. The pessimistic point of view from both Crane and the main character, Henry Fleming, serves to explain the clashing concepts of glory and gore in wartime. By comparing the mental processes of Henry and the setting of the novel (primarily a battleground or within the regiment), the audience was subject to the immorality and corruption of human

During the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry fights alongside his comrades in the first battle that he had participated in, yet he flees in the second one he participates in. What caused him to react this way? His reasons for his actions are quite cowardly and dishonorable but justified nonetheless.

Most Americans didn’t really understand what was going on during battle, mostly during the time of the civil war because up to this point we we hadn’t had a war that had been this deadly and gruesome. One of the most prominent themes that you see throughout the book is courage; as the novel opens, Henry’s view of being courageous is traditional and romantic. He assumes that, he will return from the war either with or without his shield. Henry’s understanding of courage has more to do with the praise of his peers than any internal measure of his

Henry Fleming, the main character of the book, was at first very exited to go to war, joining the army against his mother's consent. After a few weeks in the regiment he starts to finds war frightening. Crane describes the way Henry flees from battle. 'He to, threw down his gun and fled. There was no shame in

People tend to be greatly influenced by stories, news, and other contemporary sources of knowledge, which ultimately affects the impact they have on the world. Stephen Crane was greatly impacted by the time period in which he lived. One such influence was the popular literary style of Realism. Realism is the trend in which literature is based on the true nature of everyday occurrences devoid of any fantasy or romance. It is the raw depiction of what life and society is actually like. This literary style can be found in many of Stephen Crane’s novels. Religion also had a significant impact on the way Stephen Crane wrote his novels. He was an atheist which brought about the idea that humans are just part of nature and must solve their own problems without the intervention of a higher being. This notion is evident with the protagonist of The Red Badge of Courage. Henry Fleming, a young union soldier in the Civil War, must overcome the fear of putting his life at risk to achieve what he wants most which is honor. Honor comes from actively participating in battle and sacrificing his life for the cause. Honor is physically represented from a wound noted as the “Red Badge”. In the end Henry doesn’t consult in a higher being and achieves what he wants most by overcoming the mental obstacles and ultimately finding the strength within to realize what courage actually is. Accompanied by the literary movements and his religion, his time period was heavily influenced by the

War forces young soldiers to grow up quickly. In Stephen Crane’s Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is no exception. He is faced with the hard reality of war and this forces him to readjust his romantic beliefs about war. Through the novel, the reader can trace the growth and development of Henry through these four stages: (1) romanticizing war and the heroic role each soldier plays, (2) facing the realities of war, (3) lying to himself to maintain his self-importance, and (4) realistic awareness of his abilities and place in life. Through Henry’s experiences in his path to self-discovery, he is strongly affected by events that help shape his ideology of war, death,

In, “The Red Badge of Courage,” there are many conflicts regarding Henry. The one in the first part of the book is internal. Henry is wondering if he will flee in the heat of the battle. “A little panic-fear grew in his mind. As his imagination went forward to a fight, he saw hideous possibilities. He contemplated the lurking menaces of the future, and failed in an effort to see himself standing stoutly in the midst of them. He recalled his visions of broken-bladed glory, but in the shadow of the impending tumult he suspected them to be impossible pictures. (Crane 8). He wonders if he is actually a coward, and he can never have glory. He continually frets about the problem until he comes upon

In” War is Kind” Crane is talking to the soldiers families specifically to a soldiers baby and another soldiers girlfriend. Crane talks about two different soldiers one from the north and one from the south. In “War is Kind” Crane talks about the soldier from the north when he says “The unexplained glory flies above them...” because the north is winning. When Crane talks about the south he says “Swift, blazing flag of the regiment...” because the south is losing the war. This shows us two different perspectives of the war the winning side and the losing side. Another perspective Crane shows us is in “A Mystery of Heroism” when Collins puts himself in a dangerous situation to prove a point and doesn’t realize how dangerous it really is. Collins only went to go get water after this argument “There was a quarrel in A Company. Collins was shaking his fist in the faces of some laughing comrades. “Dern yeh! I ain’t afraid to’ go. If yeh say much, I will go!” Collins gets in an argument with his comrades because they think that he will not go get water and he puts himself in a dangerous situation not realizing it. Collins didn’t realize that he could die just trying to make a point that he could get water. In the story the soldiers do not seem to understand that the situation that they are in is actually very dangerous