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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry has visions of performing heroic deeds on the field of battle. A young man without any direct experience of conflict, he romanticizes war, seeing it as an adventure, a glorious,...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Some of the soldiers choose to run away from the front lines when they are faced with a charge from the enemy lines. This strategy is not employed by all the men, and there is certainly...
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The Red Badge of Courage
I believe that this question is referencing Henry's actions in chapter 6. I do hesitate to say that Henry deserted only Jim Conklin: Henry deserted his entire unit in this chapter. The chapter...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry, Mafatu, the main character, lands on a deserted island after leaving his own home in a dugout canoe. When he explores the opposite side of the island from...
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The Red Badge of Courage
While The Red Badge of Courage has more than one theme, or message, that Stephen Crane proposes through his narrative, the Naturalistic theme seems the most salient. That is, Crane portrays Nature...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Like most of the soldiers described in The Red Badge of Courage, Henry's friend, Wilson, also underwent many changes during the novel. Also referred to as the Loud Soldier, Wilson began his stint...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage conveys a negative tone through most of the novella, but it does shift throughout the various chapters. It begins ominous, and wherever a battle scene is described, a tone...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry's fears of being exposed as a coward have disappeared thanks to the injury that he received while on the run. It is believed to be a battle wound by the other members of his company, so his...
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The Red Badge of Courage
This reading is about Henry's feelings and his state of mind before going into battle, his first war experiences, and when he flees from the battle. This is Henry's first real experience off the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the opening of the book, Crane writes that "the landscape turned from brown to green," meaning that winter is giving way to spring. What this means to the soldiers in the story is that the army...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the novel, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, nature is a force, an impersonal force which does not choose. When Henry thinks that "Nature was not quite ready to kill him", he means it...
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The Red Badge of Courage
As a Naturalist, Stephen Crane broke with the Romantic tradition and refused to idealize war. In "The Red Badge of Courage" the officers are not arranged as though they are in a painting, gallant...
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The Red Badge of Courage
SOme people say that Crane's story developed to some degree out of his reading of war stories by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and the popular memoirs of Civil War veterans
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the first chapter of The Red Badge of Courage, after having enlisted in the army of the North, young Henry Fleming listens to the soldiers debate about the forthcoming battle. With feelings of...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Basically, the reason that Henry enlists has to do with the fact that he thinks that war will be glorious. He does not want to miss out -- he wants to make sure that he will get his share of the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Some examples of soldiers being compared to machines are when the youth sees the tall soldier forging "firmly on as if propelled" (Ch.9), and the youth's own vision of himself as "a...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, protagonist Henry Fleming decided to enlist in the Civil War (in the Union Army) because he had a romantic view of warfare and desired to earn the glory...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry feels guilt throughout the early stages of the novel. He is haunted by a feeling of unworthiness and self-doubt about how he will behave under fire. When he faces his first taste of combat,...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry was worried about many things, including how he would react under attack and whether he would "skedaddle" under fire. He also questioned the leadership capabilities of his officers and...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Although Henry battles his fear of the unknown during the first Confederate attack, he stands his ground with the rest of his comrades and celebrates this short, initial victory. He is relieved to...
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The Red Badge of Courage
One critical view of Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage sees the novel as a bildungsroman in which the main character, Henry Fleming reaches maturation as a man on the battlefields of the Civil...
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The Red Badge of Courage
I think the two things the youth fears are the possibility that he will not be able to conduct himself honorably under battle conditions, and the feeling that he is the only one that feels this...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Author Stephen Crane gives the reader several examples of animal imagery in Chapter 6 of his novel, The Red Badge of Courage. Henry's regiment has just beaten back a Confederate attack and,...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The first impression the author gives us of Henry Fleming is that of a youth who is totally untried. As the soldiers around him give their various opinions about when they will see battle, Henry...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the third section of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage,while Henry Fleming becomes an experienced soldier and is respected by his fellow soldiers, he has learned that many of the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry is afraid that he will not be brave under battle conditions. He keeps his fears to himself because the other soldiers have told him tales of individuals acting with "unspeakable...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The name of Henry's regiment is the 304th. Crane does not reveal its name until Chapter 18 when Henry and Wilson overhear a conversation between their general and another officer. The general is...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the classic Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage," by Stephen Crane, the main character, Henry Fleming, is nervous as he awaits the first action of his military career. During the initial...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The differences between the different ranks of soldiers in the Civil War is something that Crane's fiction seeks to explore not just in this excellent novel but elsewhere in his various works as...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane treats with his characteristic irony the epic myth in which the hero travels to the underworld where his innermost fears are challenged and from which he...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage takes place during the American Civil War. The Union and Confederate armies are battling against each other. That is one conflict, and the type would be a broad-scale man...
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The Red Badge of Courage
At the beginning of the book Henry Fleming is naive about war and most other things, and fears being exposed as a coward worse than anything else. This is made even worse when he flees with his...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The scene that you are asking about appears in chapter 7 of Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. It is important to note that Henry did not run during his first encounter with the enemy. He...
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The Red Badge of Courage
There are a number of reasons to like the book. As a younger reader, I enjoyed the story and the idea of a young man questioning much of what happens in battle and the "glory" of it. As an older...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The answer to this question can be found at the end of Chapter 5, which charts the end of the first battle Henry has participated in and his feelings about it. What characterises this battle above...
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The Red Badge of Courage
While there is no doubt that the conflict depicted in Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage is the American Civil War – the context in which Crane lived and wrote, the details of...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane’s intention in writing his novel The Red Badge of Courage was not to give insight into the actual civil war. His purpose was to portray the unique aspects of this war based on the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The soldiers and Henry are despondent because the army has not moved. At the beginning of the novel, many of the soldiers are tired of waiting around to move. They have been in the same spot for...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Most of Henry's qualities in The Red Badge of Courage would serve positively with soldiers today. In the early chapters, Henry suffered from a fear of the unknown: how he would react once he was...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry shows both courage and heroism in The Red Badge of Courage, with the extent of these qualities increasing and evolving as the story goes on. In the early stages, Henry's bravery is based on...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In order to answer this question effectively, one must understand the basic differences between Romantic and Realistic forms of literature. In Romantic literature, nature is usually elevated to...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Since the Union soldiers had been encamped for many months without having marched or seen any battlefield action, rumors about a possible move were rampant. The soldiers had heard the rumors so...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Personally, when I read this book, I took it to be quite anti-war. It delves into the loss of innocence of this young man, Henry Fleming, and the horrors he experiences during the Civil War. He...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Naturalism is a view that man is often controlled by forces he cannot control. There are many examples of this view in "The Red Badge of Courage", but several incidents are often used to support...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In traditional literary works, courage was defined as a soldier who rushed head long into battle, showing no fear. War was idealized and the men who fought in it were hereos - consider Odysseus as...
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The Red Badge of Courage
One of the key quotes for me from Chapter 11 concerns Henry watching the battle progressing from the safety of the sidelines and how the duty and bravery of the soldiers he watches impresses him so...
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The Red Badge of Courage
As they approach the field of battle, the lieutenant becomes loud and insolent, beating Henry with a sword to get him to keep up with the ranks. Henry at this point "hate(s) the lieutenant,...
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The Red Badge of Courage
One of the solidiers attempts to steal a horse from a civilian. Soon after the regiment begins its march to parts unknown, the mood of the men changes. Happy to be moving at last, the men are in...
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The Red Badge of Courage
CLIMAX In Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, the climax is reached in Chapter XX as the main character, Henry Fleming, overcomes his fear and with Wilson leads the 304th Regiment of the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
There are quite a few examples of alliteration that can be found in Stephen Crane's Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. A literary device, alliteration is the repetition of the same...
