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The army motif in 'The Red Badge of Courage' as a response to industrial capitalism.

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From: Papers on Language & Literature
Date: 19960922
Author:Shanahan, Daniel

Stephen Crane used the army theme in his novel, 'The Red Badge of Courage' to show how individualism had been replaced by a mass society. The use of the army motif for writers Edward Bellamy and Ignatius Donnelly represented the important place social organization held in a society undergoing the whirl of social transformation. Crane examined the changes that came about by the new mass mentality.

In 1904, four years after the death of his friend Stephen Crane, Henry James returned to the United States for the first time in twenty-one years. He describes his approach to New York City ...

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