It is set in the background of American Civil War. It portrays the internal conflict of a young soldier at the warfront. Henry Fleming, a young man joins the battalion to be a part of the American Civil War. But when he faces the real war, he flees from it.
"At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage."
Seeing injured soldiers, he feels guilty for fleeing. He feels shame that he did not possess any wounds which are the marks of courage. He returns to his battalion and finally proves his courage. I am happy to have read this novel which is considered to be one of the great works of American literature.
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