How Did Stephen Crane Write The Red Badge Of Courage
War has been a part of history since one of the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia. War is the state of armed conflict between different societies and is usually the fight for power. Stephen Crane was always interested in the idea of war and the psychology of it. The Red Badge of Courage gives a first person view of war and uses Henry Fleming to depict it. Fascinated by war and influenced by his surroundings, Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage by using realism and naturalism and immersing himself in the subject. Stephen Townley Crane was born on November 1, 1871, in Newark, New Jersey. Stephen Crane was the fourteenth and last child of Mary Helen Peck Crane and Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane. Stephen Crane’s father was
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A popular topic at the time, the Civil War was most likely Cranes chief influence. The stories he heard from veterans allowed him to gain a second hand experience that would make his novel almost real. He studied closely the war photographs of Matthew Brady and the psychology of war. “The fierce investigation of the soldier’s psyche and his impressionistic use of color and detail convinced many readers that Crane was a veteran turned novelist.” Crane was handed essential historical knowledge in the reliable series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War published in Century magazine that would help him write his novel. Also influenced by Sebastopol, a war novel by Leo Tolstoy, Stephen Crane was ready to write a best-selling war …show more content…
Crane describes the self-doubt, terror, and sense of isolation of Henry. Crane did this to make it more realistic and makes the novel a nonconventional historical one. The novel depicts the psychological complexities of emotion that would occur in a real soldier. Crane does not show Henry Fleming changing his thoughts or attitude toward himself and life in general making The Red Badge of Courage even more different from the novels of Crane’s time. Crane gives no guarantee that Henry has entered manhood or any change at all leaving the novel plenty of room for interpretations of its final
A popular topic at the time, the Civil War was most likely Cranes chief influence. The stories he heard from veterans allowed him to gain a second hand experience that would make his novel almost real. He studied closely the war photographs of Matthew Brady and the psychology of war. “The fierce investigation of the soldier’s psyche and his impressionistic use of color and detail convinced many readers that Crane was a veteran turned novelist.” Crane was handed essential historical knowledge in the reliable series Battles and Leaders of the Civil War published in Century magazine that would help him write his novel. Also influenced by Sebastopol, a war novel by Leo Tolstoy, Stephen Crane was ready to write a best-selling war …show more content…
Crane describes the self-doubt, terror, and sense of isolation of Henry. Crane did this to make it more realistic and makes the novel a nonconventional historical one. The novel depicts the psychological complexities of emotion that would occur in a real soldier. Crane does not show Henry Fleming changing his thoughts or attitude toward himself and life in general making The Red Badge of Courage even more different from the novels of Crane’s time. Crane gives no guarantee that Henry has entered manhood or any change at all leaving the novel plenty of room for interpretations of its final