请问 The Red Badge of Courage 的英文内容介绍(字数在400-600)

请问 The Red Badge of Courage 的英文内容介绍(字数在400-600)
请问 The Red Badge of Courage 的英文内容介绍(字数在400-600)

请问 The Red Badge of Courage 的英文内容介绍(字数在400-600)
During the Civil War,a Union regiment rests along a riverbank,where it has been camped for weeks.A tall soldier named Jim Conklin spreads a rumor that the army will soon march.Henry Fleming,a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment,worries about his courage.He fears that if he were to see battle,he might run.The narrator reveals that Henry joined the army because he was drawn to the glory of military conflict.Since the time he joined,however,the army has merely been waiting for engagement.
At last the regiment is given orders to march,and the soldiers spend several weary days traveling on foot.Eventually they approach a battlefield and begin to hear the distant roar of conflict.After securing its position,the enemy charges.Henry,boxed in by his fellow soldiers,realizes that he could not run even if he wanted to.He fires mechanically,feeling like a cog in a machine.
The blue (Union) regiment defeats the gray (Confederate) soldiers,and the victors congratulate one another.Henry wakes from a brief nap to find that the enemy is again charging his regiment.Terror overtakes him this time and he leaps up and flees from the line.As he scampers across the landscape,he tells himself that he did the right thing,that his regiment could not have won,and that the men who remained to fight were fools.He passes a general on horseback and overhears the commander saying that the regiment has held back the enemy charge.Ashamed of his cowardice,Henry tries to convince himself that he was right to preserve his own life.He wanders through a forest glade in which he encounters the decaying corpse of a soldier.Shaken,he hurries away.
After a time,Henry joins a column of wounded soldiers winding down the road.He is deeply envious of these men,thinking that a wound is like “a red badge of courage”; visible proof of valorous behavior.He meets a tattered man who has been shot twice and who speaks proudly of the fact that his regiment did not flee.He repeatedly asks Henry where he is wounded,which makes Henry deeply uncomfortable and compels him to hurry away to a different part of the column.He meets a spectral soldier with a distant,numb look on his face.Henry eventually recognizes the man as a badly wounded Jim Conklin.Henry promises to take care of Jim,but Jim runs from the line into a small grove of bushes where Henry and the tattered man watch him die.
Henry and the tattered soldier wander through the woods.Henry hears the rumble of combat in the distance.The tattered soldier continues to ask Henry about his wound,even as his own health visibly worsens.At last,Henry is unable to bear the tattered man’s questioning and abandons him to die in the forest.
Henry continues to wander until he finds himself close enough to the battlefield to be able to watch some of the fighting.He sees a blue regiment in retreat and attempts to stop the soldiers to find out what has happened.One of the fleeing men hits him on the head with a rifle,opening a bloody gash on Henry’s head.Eventually,another soldier leads Henry to his regiment’s camp,where Henry is reunited with his companions.His friend Wilson,believing that Henry has been shot,cares for him tenderly.
The next day,the regiment proceeds back to the battlefield.Henry fights like a lion.Thinking of Jim Conklin,he vents his rage against the enemy soldiers.His lieutenant says that with ten thousand Henrys,he could win the war in a week.Nevertheless,Henry and Wilson overhear an officer say that the soldiers of the 304th fight like “mule drivers.” Insulted,they long to prove the man wrong.In an ensuing charge,the regiment’s color bearer falls.Henry takes the flag and carries it proudly before the regiment.After the charge fails,the derisive officer tells the regiment’s colonel that his men fight like “mud diggers,” further infuriating Henry.Another soldier tells Henry and Wilson,to their gratification,that the colonel and lieutenant consider them the best fighters in the regiment.
The group is sent into more fighting,and Henry continues to carry the flag.The regiment charges a group of enemy soldiers fortified behind a fence,and,after a pitched battle,wins the fence.Wilson seizes the enemy flag and the regiment takes four prisoners.As he and the others march back to their position,Henry reflects on his experiences in the war.Though he revels in his recent success in battle,he feels deeply ashamed of his behavior the previous day,especially his abandonment of the tattered man.But after a moment,he puts his guilt behind him and realizes that he has come through “the red sickness” of battle.He is now able to look forward to peace,feeling a quiet,steady manhood within himself.

The Red Badge of Courage ,first published in 1895,is an impressionistic novel by American author Stephen Crane. The narrarator tells us about a young, 19 year old, boy named Henry Fleming, a recruit i...

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The Red Badge of Courage ,first published in 1895,is an impressionistic novel by American author Stephen Crane. The narrarator tells us about a young, 19 year old, boy named Henry Fleming, a recruit in the American Civil War. The story is about the meaning of courage.
Although Crane was born after the war and had never seen battle himself, the novel is one of the most influential American war stories ever written. Crane met and spoke with a number of veterans as a student and he created what is widely regarded as an unusually realistic depiction of a young man in battle.
His writing is notable for its detached and critical style, often addressing uncomfortable issues on a deeply psychological level in a way that was ground-breaking in the genre. Though Crane never names the battle in which Fleming participates, it is said in the sequel to The Red Badge of Courage, The Veteran, that Henry was fighting in the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. The battle was won by the Confederacy. There is a slight hint to the battle in The Red Badge of Courage when Henry wishes to say "All quiet on the Rappahannock" during combat as a joke to his comrades. This is in reference to the Rappahannock River, located adjacent to the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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Plot summary
The young soldier Henry Fleming survives a battle by running away and we are led through his emotional journey, as he tries to make sense of the reality of battle and his own role within it, often reaching rather self-serving and egocentric conclusions. He escapes into the forest and meets up with a group of injured men. The "Tattered Soldier" asks Henry who is often referred to as "The Youth" where he is wounded and he is embarrassed that he does not have any wounds. Henry wanders through the forest and decides that running was the best thing, and that he is a small part of the army responsible for saving himself.
Henry feels incredibly guilty when he learns that his battalion has won and that it wasn't a suicide mission after all. He returns to his battalion and is injured by another fleeing soldier who hits him on the head with his rifle. When he returns to camp, the other soldiers see his wound and think that he was harmed by a bullet grazing him in battle. Afterwards, he goes into battle for the third time the next morning. While looking for a stream, he finds that his regiment has a horrible reputation from the commanding officer. The officer talks casually about sacrificing Henry's regiment because they are nothing more than "mule drivers" and "mud diggers." With no regiments to spare, the general orders his men forward. In the final battle, Henry becomes one of the best fighters in his battalion as well as the flag bearer. Many readers have felt that by mastering his fear and eventually leading a charge, young Henry has become a man.

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