The Red Badge Of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage is the masterpiece of the American famous writer Stephen Crane. Besides, it is also the representative of naturalism. The Red Badge of Courage put a great influence to American and even the European literature. Nowadays, this work is still the main material as a naturalism study. In early days, critics paid their attention on Crane's rich imagination, language, writing method and so on. The later critics changed their mind to pay close attention to the style of The Red Badge of Courage. Some critics think it is an impressionism work; some believe it belongs to naturalism and also some classify it to realism.This thesis starts from the origin, development and main features of naturalism, by analyzing from the perspective of naturalism and showing the naturalism elements in The Red Badge of Courage, to get the conclusion that The Red Badge of Courage is a typical and great naturalism work.