Red Badge of Courage

Naturalism in The Red Badge of Courage Throughout the novel Red Badge of Courage, we are constantly being reminded of a general theme of naturalism. The entire novel is a struggle by Henry to grow as a person and attempt to find satisfaction in the person that he has become. Henry has gone to battle not only to fight for the cause, but also to grow as a person. There are many actions that Henry …

…war in behavior that they have never had to deal with before. For instance, Henry probably never thought of nature as being so closely related to him as a friend and a protector until war came. The naturalism that is portrayed in the previous passages, and in the entire novel, makes this novel unique in bringing out the relationship between nature and man and Henry’s contentment of his actions due to nature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**