Henry Fleming Change In The Red Badge Of Courage

From Coward to Courageous What defines a soldier? Do we define him by the way he runs through the battlefield, crushing his opponent, or how he finds himself leading the charge against a great, war machine? Does a hero redeem the hope of his regiment and keep fighting until his death? In Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage we see Henry Fleming, the protagonist of the novel, make himself into a soldier. In the first few pages, Crane portrays Fleming as a naïve young man wanting to go into battle solely for recognition. However, as the novel progresses we notice Fleming change from that naïve, cowardly, young man into a courageous soldier. At first, Fleming does not understand what war can do to him. Fleming enjoys a sense of pride