Ryan Maxey Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage, by its very title, is filled with color imagery and symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming\\'s vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the idea of death. In the same way, red describes both the soldiers\\' physical wounds and Fleming\\'s mental visions of battle. In the process, it gains a symbolic meaning, which Crane will put to an icon like the \\"red badge of courage\\". Crane uses color in his descriptions of the physi....

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