The Red Badge of Courage
An Episode of the American Civil War
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Publisher Description
One of the 100 best fiction novels - The Guardian
Taking place during the American Civil War, this story is about 18-year-old private, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with guilt, he longs for a wound, a "red badge of courage" and returns to his battalion. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as a flag bearer and one of the best fighters, proving in the end, his courage as a man.
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This 1895 tale of young soldier Henry Fleming's initial experiences in combat during the Civil War still startles. Artist Vansant captures Fleming's uncertainty and fear quite well, sometimes through effectively understated facial expressions. Yet this adaptation oversimplifies Crane's portrayal of Fleming, ignoring or de-emphasizing the character's other failings: his egotism, his talent for self-justification and the "wild battle madness" underlying much of his later heroism. In Crane's book, Fleming is haunted by his desertion of the dying "tattered man"; in Vansant's version, Fleming forgets him. Though Crane's book is a landmark in realism, the author's symbolic writing turned Fleming's battlefield into a mythic realm. Vansant's conventionally realistic artwork, on the other hand, is more prosaic than Crane's brilliantly descriptive captions. This adaptation faithfully introduces the plot, characters and primary themes of Red Badge to readers unfamiliar with the original book without penetrating the full depths of Crane's masterwork.
