Research Paper On The Red Badge Of Courage

He fights wildly and afterwards is praised by his lieutenant for his actions. However, in a lull between battles, he and Wilson overhear a general referring to their regiment as "mule drivers" and preparing to sacrifice them at the front line in the next scuffle. Henry wants more than ever to prove himself. In the next battle, he and Wilson see the Union flag bearer fall. They rush forward, take up the flag, and rally their comrades to fight. Afterwards, the superior officers praise this courageous action. In the novel’s final battle, Henry captures the Confederate flag as well and helps lead his regiment to

He was now a more courageous man from that point on. He saw his wound as a fact that he survived the shot, and he believes that he can survive what comes his way instead of running. When he ran back into battle one his friends had been killed. The man killed was the flag bearer. Instead of running in fear he pried the flag from his hands and ran into the heat of battle. Henry did not think about the possibility of himself being the one that could die. He decided to fight for his own honor. Henry grew there his experience n the Civil War because of things like his red badge of courage.

The two books “Soldier’s Heart,” and “The Red Badge of Courage,” have their differences and similarities that take the reader on a wild, emotional journey. The major differences amongst the stories highlights the characters personalities, or traits, and assists in making each book stand apart from

As Henry is trying to find ways to justify running from the battle, he happens to overhear a few men talking about the very same battle. His side had won, and Henry is faced with the harsh truth, Henry ran out of fear. Not because he though that the soldiers fighting alongside him would lose, but because he was afraid only for his own life. As he is thinking about all of this, Henry finally comes across other soldiers. As he inspects them more closely however, he notices that they are all badly wounded. Still trying to escape the battle, he joins

Moving closer to the battle, Henry, the rookie private with a lack of self-confidence and courage, starts thinking if he should run away from a battle or fight in the battle. With a lack of war experience, he feels insecure going to battle and does not know what to do. He starts to ask his fellow soldiers on their thoughts and opinions about running away from a battle as he felt cowardliness of doing so. He also asked one

Henry fights along the other soldiers in the first battle but flees in the second because he might be scared. Henry saw and fought in the first battle but didn't flee because he didn't see what he did the first time around. It was his first time fighting in a war or battle with other people. He remembered what his mother said before he left and wanted to see her again. He might have thought that if he didn't flee he wouldn't have a wife or kids or a family later on in life.

But in the second battle Henry flees from his comrades while they held the line as the rebels tried to push them out. The regiment ended up being the victors of the second battle too. But Henry was worried about what the other soldiers would say to him since he ran away from the battle. I believe Henry was always afraid of battle even before it started and when the enemy came sprinting towards him he was shocked and started to flee.

In the book, they are celebrating their victory, when they notice the confederates are coming back with another attack. They were not prepared for this battle. As soon as he saw the confederates approaching, he forget he was apart of the team. He became more focused on how committed the confederates were. Henry thought to himself, "They must be machines of steel. It was very gloomy struggling against such affairs, wounded perhaps to fight until sundown." In this quote, Henry focuses on how strong the other army is. He forgets the importance of working together with his regiments to put them

Henry feels he's overcome his fears, until the enemy charges again. Henry, no longer feeling part of the team, pictures the enemy as super human soldiers about to trample him. He runs. He overhears generals celebrating their victory. Chapter 7 Henry resents the victory, accusing his fellow soldiers of being stupid and lucky.

Sure enough, Henry believed that his regiment wouldn’t survive the battle, so he ended up fleeing. Upon travelling through the woods, Henry attempts to stop a soldier and ask questions, but instead gets hit in the head leaving a severe gash. A soldier from Henry’s regiment finds Henry and brings him to his their camp, where Henry is reunited with his regiment. His regiment, not knowing how Henry got the gash, assumes he has been shot. After recovering, Henry gains his confidence and returns to the battlefield.

“The Youth,” which Henry is referred to as, dreamt of glory in battle and being a hero (Crane 2). That is the reason why Henry enlisted himself; even though he told his comrades he was forced to be in the army. His mother’s farewell speech is ironic because he thought that she would give him a tearful and long speech, but all she really said was to “Watch out, and be a good boy” (4). She does not want Henry to be a hero even though that is what he went to war for. She told Henry that she will be fine if he does not return home. Henry tries to pull off being a confident and good soldier, while in the reality he is very nervous about what will happen in battle. Throughout the novel, he questions his courage and if he would run from battle. At an early battle, Henry continuously fires at the enemy line and feels like he is a courageous soldier. However, soon after this battle, another one erupts and Henry runs from it. This is

He described that he couldn’t escape even if he wanted to. Through this analogy, the reader can see that Henry is reducing the soldiers to unthinking, unfeeling machines, performing their duty without taking into account the threat of injury or death. As he looks around at the faces of the rest of the soldiers in his regiment, he notices their focused commitment to the firing of their rifles. He wonders if he is the only one faced with questions of morality. While the regiment began to advance, Henry was shocked to receive a packet of letters from Wilson, who feared he would die in battle. After the battle, he is glad that he made it through the first day. He begins to lose the romantic vision of war by seeing the realities, but he starts lying to himself about who is really is.

The Red Badge of Courage is a story of self-discovery. The novel is set during the American Civil War, on multiple battlefields. Henry Fleming is a young soldier fighting for the Union. He first joined the army because he dreams of the glories of battle and performing heroic deeds in battle. Although Henry wishes to be a brave soldier, when in battle, his survival instincts take over, and he begins debating fight or flight. His desire to become a soldier and his instinct to survive introduces the main plot and conflict of the story: During a battle, he runs away. This causes him to see the contradiction in himself and it becomes an emotional conflict for him to solve out the contradiction. Because he is so hung up on the image of the war hero, even though he wasn’t shot at, but hit by a fellow soldier, he lies to his comrades that the wound was a bullet wound. He’s lied once to them about fighting bravely in battle when in actuality he ran away, and he lied again telling them that the head would which he actually got from another soldier was a bullet wound. The climax of the plot occurs when Henry redeems himself at another major battle by fighting bravely and taking up the Union flag when the flag bearer is wounded. He ignores his fears and faces the battle like the hero he’s dreamed of and he overcomes his survival instinct. The resolution happens after the battle is over and Henry survives. He reflects on the decisions he’s made and sees how much he’d

Henry's fears take over, and his only way to achieve his self comfort again is to run away from the battle. Henry uses the forest to calm himself. The forest is where he begins to overcome his selfish ways, he reflects back on the battle and the men, and starts to believe that he can be of help to one or more of the men in the regiment. Henry eventually wins over the fear and joins with another regiment to fight against the rebels.

Henry’s vision of war is much different from the other soldiers in the regiment. He is so young he has yet to accept the fact he is just a boy who imagines war as a playground. Henry is unaware of the transition that is soon to be brought into his life which will be surrounded by Acrimony. War is not kind to anyone and therefore Henry needs to conceive war as a serious event and cannot risk making childish decisions. His youth is over and he needs stay focused and develop the qualities of a fantastic soldier in order to return to his family. “The reality of war is much different, as Henry discovers. Soldiers spend most of their time drilling, marching, and waiting for action that rarely comes.” (Marie 443). Therefore most of the soldiers are different from Henry and pay no attention to him at first because he is a young boy. Furthermore, Henry’s vision of himself as a common soldier makes him different. Although it is still undiscovered what the common soldier is. Not knowing what the common soldier really is confuses Henry and he is still unsure of what his expectations are in battle. “His participation in battle is his introduction to life as for the first time he tests himself and his preconceptions or experience itself.” (Jones 447). Indeed, there will be times for Henry to experience these problems and concepts, however, his behavior will change his action in battle. As Henry gets to