Part one of term paper
4-30-2002 Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage, by its very title, is filled with color imagery and symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming\\'s vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and ...

Part two of term paper
... and allows color to take on meanings ranging from the real to the surreal. Crane opens the novel with a description of the fields at dawn: \\"As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors\\". The fog clears to reveal a green world of grass. It also reveals another green world, the world of youth. Like school children, the young soldiers circulate rumor within the regiment. This natural setting proves an ironic plac ...