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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
Henry Fleming, a young soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, describes his first months in the army as a "monotonous life in camp." During these months waiting for an assignment, Henry...
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The Red Badge of Courage
I think it is a very important chapter. In fact, I feel it is a pivotal moment in the narration about Henry, his attitude, and ability to fight. In the chapters previous to chapter 5, the reader...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In Chapter 16, Wilson's reaction to the impending battle is to lay down and sleep, while Henry watches and listens to the cannon and gunfire. As they're marching Wilson seems defeated ("He was...
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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
Naturalism seeks to apply a cold scientific objectivity to the study of human beings and their actions. Realism tends to focus on events, and naturalism tends to focus on people. While "Red Badge...
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The Red Badge of Courage
That depends on when you are referring to Henry's deeds in battle. Early in the book, Henry is so scared that he runs away from battle and then uses a logical argument to explain why he is so much...
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History
While The Red Badge of Courage has as its setting the Civil War, Crane's focus is more upon the psychological states of combat and an individual soldier's emotional experiences in the midst of...
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The Tree of Red Stars
Having entered the war for the selfish reason of attaining personal glory, Henry Fleming does not perceive himself as part of the corps of soldiers. Dialogue from Chapter I and II In Chapter I,...
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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
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
Stephen Crane's novel The Red Badge of Courage is the first novel of the War genre that analyzes themes at the battlefield from the perspective of the soldier, and not from the point of view of...
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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
The Red Badge of Courage paints war in a little different light than many other war novels. In this one, Stephen Crane does two things differently than many other works in this genre: he depicts...
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The Red Badge of Courage
In the first chapter, Henry's mother wisely advises her son that war is realistically not the same as the glorified versions of "war ardor" and "patriotism" to which Henry succumbs; she tells her...
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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
The main conflict in the novel 'The Red Badge Of Courage' is an internal one relating to the main character, Henry, who fears that he will not perform well in his first battle. He is conflicted...
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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 soldiers are afraid of battle, even if they pretend they are not. One of the main themes of the book is that everyone is afraid. Courage does not mean not being afraid; it means working...
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The Red Badge of Courage
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The Red Badge of Courage
The protagonist and third person narrator of The Red Badge of Courage is Henry Fleming, a young farm boy who joins the army during the Civil War because he wants to be a hero. The Red Badge of...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The remit of Crane in this text seems to be wider than simply discussing the merits or otherwise of war. In fact, the text seems to point towards a consideration of the universe's response to human...
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The Red Badge of Courage
The overwhelming presentation that Crane wishes to give about war is the way that, in spite of all plans, military prowess and skill, actual war is nothing more than chaos, where anybody can be...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage with the intention of refuting the glorification of war. Crane’s classic novel represents two types of fiction writing: naturalism, and realism. The...
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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
Henry is encountering the experience of actually being involved in fighting, shooting his weapon at the enemy. After all the doubts and fears and uncertainty about how he would react to being in a...
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The Red Badge of Courage
As a Naturalist, Stephen Crane uses details that describe men having impulses that are similiar to animals, and in this first paragraph extracted from Chapter XI animal imagery is used. The line...
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The Red Badge of Courage
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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
Given that Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, is about war, the use of the color red to symbolize the blood spilled is poignant. War is violent. War is deadly. Soldiers must be...
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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
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
The "red badge of courage" to which author Stephen Crane refers in the title of his classic Civil War novel is simply a battle wound that a soldier receives during combat. It is something that...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Before Henry and his regiment are attacked by the Confederates, they witness an undisciplined "retreat" by another group of Union soldiers, and they realize that "the whole command was fleeing."...
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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
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
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
Henry's regiment had successfully withstood the first attack by the Confederates, and the raw recruits celebrated what they perceived to be a victory in their first action. So it was all over...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Your question of course refers to the way that Henry, as he pushes further into the forest, comes across a glade that is described in the following way: At length he reached a place where the...
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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
Quite clearly, in a novel that is all about war and one man's response to it in a number of different situations, you can expect to find a number of different quotes concerning war that you could...
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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
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
Among the animal images that Stephen Crane uses to define the fighting men in The Red Badge of Courage: Henry considers himself filled with "eagle-eyed prowess" (Chapter I) The new soldiers were...
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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
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
It is clear that Naturalism, or the utter indifference of nature to the fate of mankind, acts as the major theme of this excellent novel in which the protagonist, Henry, gradually learns about the...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Precisely because Crane is showing us that the real battle is not a physical, exterior affair, but an internal matter in the mind of his protagonist, Henry, as he has to struggle with his own...
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The Red Badge of Courage
Henry is not alone in his anxiety concerning how he will react when he is under fire for the first time. The entire regiment is completely untried, including (probably) most of the officers, so...
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The Red Badge of Courage
While Henry displays the most self-doubt among the three, the loud soldier and the tall soldier already have decided how they will fair in their first taste of combat. Jim Conklin (the tall...
