The Red Badge Of Courage Henry Analysis

This article by Mordecai and Erin Marcus, published in the John Hopkins University press, discusses how animal imagery is used in The Red Badge of Courage to support Henry’s emotions and themes of the novel. Animal imagery is seen in the beginning of the novel through thoughts of Henry such as,” he and his comrades were sure to be killed like pigs” or when his regiment was described as a “row of monsters”. After Henry became somewhat fearless of battle, Mordecai and Erin Marcus concluded that the animal imagery that once described Henry has changed. Before the following battles Henry and his comrades were compared to chickens and Terries due to their fears, but towards the end he and his comrades were seen as “wild cats”. Not only does the