The Red and the Black

Red and black

Stendhal's "The Red and the Black" is the foundation of French critical realist literature, in which "red" represents soldiers in red uniforms and "black" represents priests in black, when the poor people of France wanted to get ahead in high society, and there were only two paths to choose.

Born into a family of carpenters, Jullien was an ambitious man who thought about how to rise to high society, and with an astonishing memory, he memorized a Latin Bible, and because he was familiar with Latin, he went to the mayor's house to do virtue. Mrs. Rainar's tutor and with De. Madame Renal had a relationship, and after being discovered by the mayor, Jullien had to leave beaux-Arts.

He whispered to himself, "Under Napoleon, I will be a cobia, and among the future priests, I will be a bishop." ”

The seminary is also a dark place, and Dean Pila is forced to resign, introducing Yu lian to the Marquis of Mull as a secretary, and falling in love with Martel, the daughter of the Marquis of Mull, and when Jullien thinks he is going to succeed, de Munel is in love with Munel. Madame Renal was forced to write a denunciation letter, and everything was finished, and Jullien collapsed to find De. Madame Renal fired two shots, and Yulian regretted it afterwards and was caught and sentenced to death.

The starting point of Jullien's two relationships was not because of love, but because he wanted to conquer these nobles and wanted to embark on the road to success with them. Madame Renal is not dead, she and Martel have been trying to save Yulian, but Jullien refuses.

When he was sentenced, he said: "My crime was cruel and premeditated, and I should be sentenced to death, mr. jurors, I may deserve pity, but some people still punish me by punishing me to make a hundred, so that such a young man will lose his courage forever." ”

Under the hierarchical feudal rule, the poor had little chance to change their fate, and after Jullien's death, Martel bought his head and buried him, which was also the brave romantic love that Martel had always longed for.

After the death of Lian De. Madame Renal also died, and before Yulian died they met in prison and forgave each other, de Rinnar. Madame Renal had always been dissatisfied with her husband, and in the days without love she had devoted her mind to her three children, until she met Jullien, and she seemed to be reborn, but as a married woman, she hovered between love and morality every day, and maybe in another world they could be free.