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A 5 page paper which examines why this text should be regarded as a naturalist novel. No additional sources are used.
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championed a new style known as realism, which represented a considerably dark view of humanity. This pessimism grew even darker by the latter nineteenth-century, and soon, an offshoot dubbed
naturalism distinguished itself. It began with French experimental novelist Emile Zola but quickly made its way to the United States. Stephen Crane wasted no time in establishing himself
as a master of the naturalist style, which took the view that man was not the rational being he envisioned but was, in fact, a prisoner of his natural surroundings.
The heroic values celebrated by Homer were exposed in nature as being nothing more than a glamorous illusion. Dying for courage was not a beautiful concept; rather, it
looked ugly in the light of day and instead of embracing it, the naturalist hero fears it and runs from it. In Cranes classic American novel, The Red Badge
of Courage, his protagonist and literary alter-ego Henry Fleming envisions himself as a crusader for Homeric ideals. However, he finds himself immersed in another kind of war, one he
cant hope to win - against an antagonist who is everywhere - nature. When Henry becomes a member of New Yorks 304th Regiment, there are no epic conflicts or glorious
battles; instead, there are seemingly endless days in a muddy camp waiting countless hours for the enemy to approach. Even though the country is at war, nature appears to
be completely oblivious, much to Henrys amazement in Chapter V: "As he gazed around him the youth felt a flash of astonishment at the blue, pure sky and the sun
gleaming on the trees and fields. It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment" (Crane 44). Henry
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