《红色英勇勋章》中亨利为英勇作战所作的努力_英语论文

Henry’s Struggles to Fight Bravely in the War: the Red Badge of Courage as I see it

摘要

《红色英勇勋章》是19世纪晚期美国著名现实主义作家斯蒂芬·克莱恩的作品。这部短篇小说讲述了主人公亨利·弗莱明对战争抱有浪漫幻想，于是不顾母亲的反对毅然加入了北方军，但当他真正面临战场却临阵逃脱，后来历经种种最终克服了胆怯、战胜了自己这样一个故事。对于亨利当逃兵的行为，众说纷纭。本篇文章所持的观点是亨利临阵逃脱的行为确实是事实，这也是为人们传统观念所不接受的，但从另一个角度来看，作为一个有血有肉有思想的人，在危险面前条件反射般出于本能的自救却是合情合理的。亨利是一个英雄，但并不是一个传统意义上的英雄。通常人们认为英雄就应是与生俱来的英勇无畏、超凡脱俗，然而作者克莱恩在这里却塑造了一个不像英雄的英雄，他是一个普通人，会恐惧、会胆怯、会退缩，但他为了克服自己的恐惧懦弱，为了能在战场上奋勇杀敌做出了很多努力。总的来说，在真正上战场前亨利纠结了很多、思考了很多，后来他临阵逃跑，为自己的行为找了很多借口，但笔者认为这是亨利为了不让自己内心深处的信念崩塌、能够继续下去直到能洗刷这个屈辱而自欺欺人的心理。本篇文章将着重讨论亨利为了克服自己的胆小懦弱，为了能英勇作战而作出的努力。

关键词：英勇 懦弱 克服 努力

Abstract

The Red Badge of Courage is a masterpiece of a famous American realist writer of the late 19th century--- Stephan Crane. It is a short novel which tells a story that the protagonist, Henry Fleming, who had a rosy fantasy towards the war, joined the northern forces despite his mother’s disapproval, but then he escaped from the battle field, finally overcame his inner cowardice. Henry did run away once, which was unacceptable in traditional views. However, on the other hand, it’s quite reasonable that one chooses to run out of nature when faced with danger. Henry might not be a hero of traditional sense, that is, he was not born to be a hero. As a common person, he spared no effort to conquer his inner cowardice, and fought in the war as brave as a hero. In general, Henry had anguished a lot before his first war, in addition, he got various excuses for his running away, which the author thinks are in essence the ways which enable Henry to keep going in spite of his shameful deed. Born to be an average man, Henry never stopped struggling to overcome his cowardice until the moment he fought bravely. 

Key words:  Brave  cowardice  overcome  struggle

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 About Stephan Crane 2

3 Analysis of Henry’s Positive Thinking and Behaviors 3

3.1 Struggling with the issue “if I would run” 3

3.2 Fighting bravely in the beginning 5

3.3 Wishing to be wounded or even dead 6

3.4 Leading the regiment to win 7

4 Analysis of Henry’s Negative Thinking and Behaviors 9

4.1 Fleeing as enemy staged back 9

4.2 Excusing for running away 10

5 Conclusion 11

Bibliography 13

Acknowledgments 14