Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Crane repeatedly uses animal images to describe the regiment’s fighting in The Red Badge of Courage. What are the three animals?

Among the animal images that Stephen Crane uses to define
the fighting men in The Red Badge of
Courage
:


  • Henry considers himself
    filled with "eagle-eyed prowess" (Chapter
    I)

  • The new soldiers were referred to as "fresh
    fish" (Chapter I).

  • The narrator
    described the enemy in the darkness that "moved like monsters" (Chapter
    II
    )

  • The narrator repeatedly compared the
    invincible Confederate troops as "dragons."

  • The youth saw
    the troops before him laid out in two long lines like "serpents" (Chapter
    II).

  • The forms of his comrades looked
    "satanic" in the shadows (Chapter
    II).

  • The Union skirmishers were "busy as bees"
    (Chapter III).

  • Henry was worried
    that the Confederate troops would kill his comrades "like pigs" (Chapter
    III).

  • War is referred to as the "red animal"
    (Chapter III).

  • Henry also worried
    that if he cried out a warning to his regiment about the impending onslaught, he would
    "turn into a worm" (Chapter
    III).

  • The regiment dug into ground "like
    terriers" (Chapter III).

  • The
    retreating Union soldiers ran like "wild horses" (Chapter
    IV).

  • The colonel of Henry's regiment began to
    "scold like a wet parrot" (Chapter
    V).

  • Henry compared his "exasperation" as that
    of a "well-meaning cow worried by dogs" (Chapter
    V).

  • His rage was like a "driven beast"
    (Chapter V).

  • When he turned from the
    attack, Henry "ran like a rabbit" (Chapter
    VI).

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