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Red Badge of Courage
Title: Red Badge of Courage
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 531 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Red Badge of Courage
Defining Courage
On the surface Henry Fleming's red badge of courage was a gash in his head caused by the butt of a rifle. This wound actually being a fake medal actually representing his cowardice and fear of battle. While many men and women may criticize Henry for deserting his battalion, it is only human nature to want to survive. This is thoroughly explained in Walter Cannon's theory of the fight or flight mechanism. It is a human's reaction to life threatening situations, and only …showed first 85 words of 531 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 531 total…decided to make right his wrongs.
Whether or not Henry is considered courageous by his colleagues, it is not their decision to make. Courage is defined by going against one's own fears. Henry clearly opposes all that his mind is telling him. The anxiety that plagued him throughout the novel is subdued and he becomes a hero among men, a soldier.
Fornarola, Andrew, Letters to the Editor: Beyond the "Fight or Flight" Diplomacy, http://www.princeton.edu/~afp/archives/vol003_iss02/letters.shtml, February 1, 2004, Pages 1-2
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