Color Imagery in The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane uses color imagery and color symbols in The Red Badge of Courage. Green represents youth, red is a symbol of Henry Fleming's mental visions of battle, and gray is used as a symbol for death. The colors are subtle representations of emotion, character, and one's perception of events. "As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…in Crane's The Red Badge of Courage". March 6, 1995. http://www.colorado.edu/english/engl4652/rice.html The Red Badge of Courage Online ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext96/badge10a.txt *Web sites were used throughout the paper as a general resource. ** The copy of The Red Badge of Courage in the literature book does not have this paragraph, but it is used in Rice's essay and in internet publications of the book.