The Red Badge Of Courage Character Analysis Henry Fleming

Have your nerves ever frizzled during a presentation? Well, imagine being on the battlefield staring death in the eye like Henry Fleming. Henry is a recruit soldier who gets enlisted into the army despite his mom's advice. He is driven to join the army from the thought of gaining prominence and recognition. During his journey, Henry the protagonist goes through the many hardships of war and ends up learning countless lessons which help him to grow as a person. Henry has the urge to enlist in the army for his self-centered reasons, despite the menaces that await him. As seen from the book Henry’s main reason of joining the army is so that he can be glorious in the eyes of others, “He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed

“He had thought of a fine revenge upon the officer who had referred to him and his fellows as mule drivers” (Crane, 115). Henry is now not only seeing his problems, but rather the problems of the regiment and his fellow comrades. His spirit to fight for the glory of his regiment arises from the pessimistic comments of the other lieutenant, which anger him into putting his life on the line and showing that his regiment can be victorious as well. Likewise, Henry does not flee when he fights this time around even though he recognizes the great deal of bodies lying at rest close to him, and most of those bodies being his comrades. On the contrary, this gives Henry motivation to avenge them and strive for the victory of everyone in his regiment. No matter the gore and danger ahead of Henry, he was firm on winning the battle and did so in the end. Moving on, Henry also does not take into account the praises he attains for his strong effort on the battlefield and instead cares more about proving the lieutenant that called his regiment a “bunch of mule drivers” wrong. As a matter of fact the old Henry would have only cared about his own problems disregarding everything to do with his