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Works of Stephen Crane: Red Badge Of Courage: Chapters 12 - 17

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Crane, Stephan

Crane, Stephan
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Red Badge Of Courage: Chapters 12 - 17

Chapter 12

As the chapter opens, the same column of men which had moments before
advanced so stoutly and gestured so heroically came flooding out of the woods
in retreat. The youth was struck dumb in agony and amazement, and threw aside
his "mental pamphlets on the philosophy of the retreated and rules for the
guidance of the damned."

Comment: This is perhaps a reference to the unwitting pretentiousness of
the titles of philosophical works which promise to teach codes of action from
a purely theoretical ...

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