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"The Red Badge of Courage" opens on the eve of a rumored battle during the American Civil War. It is a union army regiment's first battle, and a young soldier's latent doubts about his courage begin to surface. His doubts take him by surprise. He had thought of himself as courageous. Author Stephen Crane writes: "In visions he had seen himself in many struggles. He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess." But his heroic vision of himself, even then, was not rooted in his present day reality, but rather in a distant past, drawing upon the heroic epics of Homer w...
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