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The Red Badge of Courage, by it's very title, is infested with color imagery and color symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming's vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the idea of death. In the same way, red describes both the soldiers' physical wounds and Henry's mental vision of battle. In the process, it gains a symbolic meaning which Crane will put an icon like the ‘red badge of courage'. Stephen Crane uses color in his descriptions of the physical and the non-physical and allows color to take on meanings ranging from the literal to the figurative.
Stephen Crane begins the novel with a description of the fields in the morning: " As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors" (1). The fog clears to reveal the literal green world of......

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