![]() ![]() This is shown by the fact that “the tall soldier, for one, gave him some assurance” (17). Henry sees the tall soldier (Jim Conklin) as a mentor, an elder who can teach him how to be a great soldier. Over the course of the novel he learns that this is not true, but because he believes this firmly at first, Henry is called the youth. In the beginning of the novel, he is naïve and has “large pictures, extravagant in color” painted in his head about the glory of war (7). Henry is called the youth because the book essentially chronicles his maturation from youth to manhood. Many parallels are drawn between him and Jesus Christ, and the fact that people ‘look up’ him makes it fitting that he is called the tall soldier. The tall soldier, or Jim Conklin, is named so because he is considered to be the most courageous and ‘looked up to’ character in the novel. Although later on we learn that his name is Wilson and that he undergoes many changes throughout the novel, at first all we know is that he has a “boyish face wreathed in a gleeful smile”, and from the fact that he “evidently complimented himself upon the modesty of this statement”, we can deduce that he is also boastful (24,25). The ‘loud soldier’ is named so because of his appropriately loud and boastful nature. By referring to them by their descriptive names, the author emphasizes a key element of their character, and by keeping the name ambiguous and vague, he is emphasizing their lack of individualism. These characters are given these names to emphasize their key characteristics, and that in the end they are all the same person a soldier. Therefore, he feels inadequate when he realizes that everyone else has a ‘red badge of courage’, evidence of being a part of what considers a heroic undertaking, but he does not. He wants to be a part of the war because he sees glory in being a part of it, and although he runs away at the first sign of danger due to a survival instinct, he hopes to gain glory as a soldier in the war. This is shown by the reason behind which he enters the war effort in the first place he “longed to see it all” as “his mind had drawn him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds” (7). Henry is youthful and to a certain extent, naïve. This means that Henry thinks of this red badge as a wound that proves one’s courage in battle, as he believes courage to come from one’s taking part in a battle and fighting for his/her country.Īfter the battle from which Henry has run away, he sees the wounded as being “peculiarly happy” (74). ![]() The ‘red badge’ of courage, in Henry’s eyes is “a wound” that makes a soldier “peculiarly happy” a wound that is evidence of a soldier having taken part in battle (74). After Conklin’s death, Crane describes the sun as being “pasted in the sky like a wafer”, and as wafers are symbolic of the flesh of Christ in many Christian rituals, it can be seen that this the “red sun” in the sky symbolizes Conklin’s passage from this world to the next (80). ![]() Much like the death that Jesus Christ died, Conklin accepts his death, and he believes that by dying he is meeting his destiny. Jim, when dying, is described as “waiting with patience for something he had come to meet” (79). Aside from the fact that both Jim Conklin and Jesus Christ share the same initials, Conklin also bears other resemblances to Christ for other reasons. ![]() Throughout the novel, many examples of religious symbolism can be seen. ![]()
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