Analysis Of The Red Badge Of Honor By Stephen Crane

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The Red Badge Of Honor, By Stephen Crane. Takes place during the American civil war with the Union Army (The United States) fighting against the Confederates (The South). The main protagonist of the book is called Henry he is a young man who is blinded by the Romance, glory and honor of war. Henry thinks that if goes to war he will obtain a semblance of Honor and glory. But his mother does not think so she sees her son as merely a fool, but as any mother would she worried about him going to war. And she gave him hundreds of reasons of why he would not be successful in the army. While I think that Henry's mother is right about him being not soldier material we often forget that the heat of the battle and war forges a new man. He sometimes become a killing machine, a leader or just a plain old broken man. During the novel Henry faces internal conflict on many levels He runs away as from the second battle because he is scared to die, but later returns out of guilt and fear, He then uses that guilt and fear to feed his anger and goes into frenzy and fights until he cant. The final reason is that after the final battle when Henry has the flag he is a new man as he is not afraid of war anymore. …show more content…

During his time running away Henry finds himself in deep internal conflict because he ran away from his regiment, soon after he finds the tattered man who talks to Henry about how his regiment fought to the last man. And about how he fought bravely with his regiment and how the whole army has so much courage and fortitude. Henry then feels guilty about leaving the 304th behind and so he changes course and finds the army and gets back into the

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