A COWARD HERO IN STEPHEN CRANE’S THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895)

Bülent Cercis TANRITANIR

Makale detayları

A COWARD HERO IN STEPHEN CRANE’S THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895)

Yazarlar:

Bülent Cercis TANRITANIR

Yayıncı:

Van Yuzuncu Yıl University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 2019 Issue 44, pp.53-61

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000649723

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1302-6879

Özet:

 


Heroism,
primarily in wars, has always been one of the focal points in the world
literature. In this regard, lots of authors have produced works tackling this
issue. Authors either produced their works which were based on true
observations or narrations. The most important figures are the war heroes. When
Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of
Courage, a very well-known novel of American Literature, he was a fairly
young guy with no war experience. Looking at the usual war novels, it is
expected to draw the flawless portrait of a hero. In those plots, all the ideal
heroes are to leave their family back, willingly committed and ready enough to
die, perpetually suffer for their country, and never complain no matter what.
This portrait has been drawn for a hero all through the course of time in our
collective history of the human kind.





                Though quite many critics argue
that out of a farm boy Crane creates a real hero at the end of the novel, named
Henry Fleming, he proves to be a coward instead of a hero. The diversion of
Crane is very clear in that unlike all the other war novels, he flawlessly
draws the psychological portrait of a hero in questioning himself and his
glorified deeds. This article presents, with all the drawbacks and upheavals of
Henry’s being too much preoccupied with the idea of battle in his inner self.
You are supposed to find the innovation of Crane by creating a fully human
being in front of the heroic deeds either to accept or defy them unlike all the
other usual war novels.


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Makale detayları

A COWARD HERO IN STEPHEN CRANE’S THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (1895)

Yazarlar: Bülent Cercis TANRITANIR

Yayıncı: Van Yuzuncu Yıl University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 2019 Issue 44, pp.53-61

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 6/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000649723

Sıklık: Üç Aylık

pISSN: 1302-6879

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Bülent Cercis TANRITANIR

Yayıncı:

Van Yuzuncu Yıl University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 2019 Issue 44, pp.53-61

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

6/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000649723

Sıklık:

Üç Aylık

pISSN:

1302-6879