FINAL ESSAY: The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a completely unromantic and realistic story about a boy's psychological turmoil as he experiences warfare. Stephen Crane's attitude towards war is a distraught understanding of the irrational effects war has on human beings and one of disgust towards its vicious brutality. Stephen Crane reveals this attitude through the uses of the Henry Fleming's thoughts and actions, …showed first 75 words of 1157 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1157 total…is a distraught understanding of the irrational affect war has on human beings and one of disgust towards its vicious brutality. The author exposes this attitude through the uses of the Henry Fleming's thoughts and actions, through the characters' dialogue and through animal imagery throughout the novel. It is blatantly clear that Henry's excitement of patriotism has dissolved into war's bloody reality. The effects of war are realistically displayed in The Red Badge of Courage.