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Red Badge Of Courage
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The , by its very title, is invested in color imagery and color symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming's vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and co ....
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....oss the red, eyelike gleam of the hostile camp-fires set in the low brows of the distant hills" (43). Obviously, the fires are red. But Fleming characterizes the blazes as the enemy's glowing eyes. He continues this metaphor in the next chapter: "From across the river the deep red eyes were still peering" (58). Crane then transforms this metaphor into a conceit used throughout the text: "Staring once at the red eyes across the river, he conceived then to be growing larger, as the orbs of a row .... |
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