The Theme of Courage in Red Badge of Courage :: Red Badge Courage Essays

The Theme of courageousness in Red Badge of Courage     The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional psychological portrait of a young soldier named Henry Fleming, tracing the thread of his emotions and reactions to events that transpire during an anonymous battle of the Civil War (spark notes). Henry is an average farmer from New York. Henry wants to go to war and become a hero like the peerless he read active in his school. The story starts off with everyone sitting in control camp by the river with rumors flowing around. While everyone is thinking about what they will do in war, Henry was thinking of how is he going to react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was to die? He said, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight. Two of the other guys in the army had about the same courage as Henry, scarce none of them ever said that they will not run away. Before he can go on to fight in battle, the army puts him in a battle to see if he runs away from fight or not.   The northern army is finally put on the move and marched across the river, where they suit with Southern forces. Henrys regiment takes a reserve position, so Henry gets to see a battle before going in to an action himself. Finally his regiment drives back the enemy and Henry feels a joy of success. Then enemy charges again, but Henry flees thinking his regiment will be overrun by the enemy. As he running and trying to justify to himself why he is running.   When he gets to the woods he sees a dead man in a clearing. Henry takes the man and runs to the armys rear to get the man some help. Instead he finds his friend Jim Conkin from his regiment, who has been shot in the side. Henry tried to help Jim with other man called Tattered Soldier. Jim could not hold on and died. After Jims death, Henry felt angry and left the Tattered Soldier alone to die in field, but it always came back to haunt Henry.   After he leaves the Ta ttered Soldier, he sees the enemy charging and rushes back to the union regiment.