During my extracurricular time, I started reading The Red and The Black. It was a typical and fundamental European work of criticism and realism which was released in the 19th century .I like reading attitude to bestseller since I can’t ,and can’t be like that unbridled fiction was noncommittal on that .I’m in with the mind talking with that era ,the key is in history outside of the inquiry and thinking. The author Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842) was better known by his pen name Stendhal. He was a 19th-century French writer. He was known for his acute analysis of his characters" psychology, and he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels .The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. The book is divided into 4 parts. Now let me tell you the first part of this famous book. The small town of Verrieres is located in the hillside. There is a beautiful river called Doubs .There are many wood factories stand on the bank of the river. The mayor is a noble blood man, who is very tall. A full metal hang on his chest. He is about 50 years old. His house is very large. There is the most beautiful garden .His wife is beautiful and rich, but his talent is shortage, the wit of this man does not go beyond make sure he is paid on the dot whatever is owed to him, and leaving it to the last possible moment to pay back what himself owes 。 In the city, there is an important person. He is the beggar shelter director Mr. Wa. He spent ten thousand to twenty –two thousand francs to get this position. He has a powerful physique, palm face, black and thick mustache. The others think he is a lady-killer, even the mayor fear him. But the mayor determined to please a tutor in order to show their superior. The carpenter’s son is proficient in Latin, who is named Julien. He was elected as the tutor of the mayor . He is about 18 years old , long slight and comedy. He has two big and black eyes. In tranquil, as if his eyes will shot the glory of the fire, but for a instant, his eyes appeared the terrible hatred. Because he held the book all day, and don not like to do the physical work, it always make other people hate him. Even it will lead his family to beat him. As a child, he was crazy about Napoleon. He was eager to be a person like napoleon and do the master of the world. He thinks Nopoleon He was only wearing swords became the master of the world。 But then he is studying the theology. He trust in remarkable memory to put the Latin bible full back down, this matter a sensation in the city. The mayor’s beautiful wife grew up in the monastery. She hates the man who is rough. Since there is no love, she draw her all attention on raising her three children. She thinks him ‘In fact, he is a girl pretends the man. But she find him is so soft and moving. She thinks Julien is a good and have a good impression on him. Even thinks besides money, power, medal of greed, the man is petrified for everything. She is fall in love with Julien, but at the time, the servant whose name is Elisa also loved him. Elisa received a heritage and want to thank the Catholic father conveys her love to Julien. But Julien refuse her love. When the wife knew it, she is very surprised. She find herself have a special feelings to Julen. In summer, the mayor moves to a country garden to live. When they are enjoying the night, they feel very happy. Julien touched the wife’s hands inadvertently. The wife shrank back suddenly. It makes Julien thinks that the wife look down upon him. Julien determined to have to hold this hand. The next night, he do it. He hold the wife’s hands tightly. It satisfied his proud. The wife does not get any sleep that night because of love, morality and responsibility. She decides to use cold manner to treat Julien. When Julien isn’t at home, she can’t help thinking him. At the same time, Julien becomes more brave, he thought to himself in his heart I owe it to myself all the time to succeed with this woman, continued my petty vanity. Since if ever I make my fortune, and the humble job of tutor is held against me, I shall be able to insinuate that cast me that role. Two o"clock at night Julien break into her room. At first, she is very angry for his rude behavior, but when she sees his eyes full of tears, she begins to sympathize with it. She thinks to herself, it is excellent to meet Julien 10 years ago if it is possible. But, she does not have this idea in her heart completely. His love completely beyond the ambition, possessive and generate enthusiasm. He is so poor and so noble, beautiful,. He has the gift of God. Soon after, the emperor arrived here. Under the arrangement of the wife, Julien joins the guard, it makes him show himself in public. During the meeting, Julien takes part in the memorial ceremony. After that, he thinks, if there is a position of eminence, he prefers to suffer from difficulties in order to get the position. The wife"s little son is dying, and she thinks this is a kind of punishment of God for her immoral behavior. And then she get into a terrible confession In my opinion, Julien is delicate and sensitive extremely. In the mayor"s home tutor, Julien through brilliantly recite Latin Saint won the de Ruina a down sit up and take notice, more with his handsome looks, juvenile pride moved the wife’s heart. And Julien must prove something psychological, looking at her, as if he is the enemy, he was going forward and her fight against That is, the strange Julien seize the reader"s heart firmly. Julien is sensitive and delicate. He has a great memory, and his pride and self-esteem, worship the environment of power is given. For indeed is very self, in his mind, the dignity of being referred to a supreme status, he can give up can be an easy job to get the money, because he needs is the respect of others. But for his pride and the pursuit of the ideal and eventually led him astray. In addition, I find myself is crazy about this famous book. I will continue reading the last three parts of this book. I think it also can improve my English ability and open my view. It is a good book absolutely.
"It is because I was mad and then that today I am wise. O philosopher, you who take an instantaneous view of filings, how short are your perspectives! Your eye is not desired to follow the underground workings of passions."---W. GOETHE一、Brief introduction to the novel The material of the Red and the Black stems from a judgment of a local court, saying that a tutor murdered his female master since he was fall in love with her heavily and, how terribly it is, he had adultery relationship with his female master. Julien ,who is the key figure in this novel ,was a son of a carpenter in Verrieres(维里埃尔), in which every people was selfish, arrogant and eager to be moneybags .He had seen the troops of Napoléon Bonaparte in his childhood, reed certain works of Loescher and the declaration of Napoléon Bonaparte`s army. Although Julien had dreamed to be a general when he was a child under such influence, he abandoned his ideal but turned to be an excellent curate with the time passing by. Julien acted as a tutor for the mayor of Verrieres in his age of nineteen out of his unique talent for Bible comprehension, undoubtedly, it is a blockbuster for Julien, the commonest in all commons of inhabitants of Verrieres in his lifetime stage. There is an old saying goes that each coin has two sides, Julien was felled in love with M. cie Renal , who was “extremely shy and seemed highly impressionable” (英语学习大书虫研究室:《红与黑》,译林出版社,第13页) , was the wife of M. de Rtenal . It was this love that brings demon to Julien, even to his life. Julien had to give up this fat case after revealing his love story and was recommended by abbe Pirard to De La Mole, the brilliant politician in Paris, as his private secretary. Fortunately, something seems precious, had been lost in the last, and is now on the way home when he set his foot in De La Mole’s home. Julien, after a long period pursuing, achieved his lifetime goal that becoming a member of upper class eventually through his marriage with the daughter of DE La Mole, Mathilde, although De La Mole was forced to acknowledge that. But something unexpected happened, M. cie Renal was lured to write a letter to De La Mole to tell him their love story with Julien, De La Mole was filled with anger at the way he had been tricked by Julien and refused to accept Julien any more immediately. As soon as news of tragedy was taken to Julien, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of his brain, to get publicity and trust back, Julien used shock tactics, that is to say, taking a shot at M. cie Renal, the wife of the mayor of Verrieres. When it comes to the end, each cool head could have the same image:“ she (Mathilde) was lighting a number of candles…… she had placed Julien’s head on a little marble table in front of her, and she was kissing his forehead…… ”(英语学习大书虫研究室:《红与黑》,译林出版社,第569页) 二、Personal comments on this novel (一) 、Julien is a liberator This viewpoint may be disputed by many people; I still believe that it is Julient which brought free ideology to such women who were being long term oppression. Chairman Mao had said that “You said Julien had destroyed others’ family, even a happy family, this comment is not objective. Actually, such a happy family cannot be destroyed, if it were true, it would be unhappy obviously. That family has oppression, therefore, where is oppression, where is revolt. This is called reacting force, I am sure Julien is the liberator which helps Madame to carry on the revolt.” As every body knows that Julien is the commonest in lower class, he has ambition that changing his mortal status which prevent him from entering upper class and having highly self-development, although his tactics seemed too harsh or, at least, aggressive, he had spared no effort to pursuit what he believes belongs to his inner heart, let alone love between M. cie Renal and Mathilde. What causes Julien’s death is not his immoral or illegal behaviors but the need of the politician’s nasty competition for respective political profits. Julien is a liberator because his words and behaviors’ influence had set an idol for the publicity, even the representative of upper class, M. cie Renal, we can see these lines in the ending of this novel: “M. cie Renal was faith to her promise. She did not seek in any way at all to take her own life; but three days after Julien (Julien’ death), she died with her children in her arms.” (英语学习大书虫研究室:《红与黑》,译林出版社,第569页). Without Julien’s influences, the ideology of revolt, even lightly disobey to such oppression could not be a little spark. Julien’s death just the incident which sparked off a whole chain of disasters to the system of society, Julien became the deaf lamb of political tricks, whose miserable life showing to us just the initial intention of the writer to write this tragedy, that is to say, to reveal such nasty secrets behind pert faces. (二) 、The artistic feature of this novel 1、Realism Stendhal , the author of this novel, who was “the first one to reveal capitalism’s feature after its victory ”(《列宁选集》,中华书局,第473页), is a realist writer. In this novel , all sentences and words 、attitudes and behavior based on the acceptance of facts and the rejection of sentiment and illusion. He is loyal to portrayal of familiar things as they are without idealizing them a little, the material of the story stems from a judgment of a local court, saying that a tutor murdered his female master since he was fall in love with her heavily and, how terribly it is, he had adultery relationship with his female master. It was that document which gives Stendhal inspiration to write this world-famous work and aim at revealing the cruelty、 darkness 、bitterness of living in capitalism society and extremely selfish for respective profits. 2、Educational No one could dispute that each reader of this novel would find the experience of such characters most educational, you could find out your own shadow somehow when compared to them, which is the extraordinary charming, having unique power, or, overwhelming. Let me go straightly, Julien’s personal experience was a mirror to us youth who want to make difference in the world in his lifespan and his tragedy just justify what said by Arabham Lincon: “you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” 3、Critical The Red and the Black is not popular in the current critical climate of that age, some literary criticism even spoke critically of S. History always goes forward by justice, she taught us trying to develop a more critical attitude, instead of accepting everything at face value. With time went by, this terrific work receive palms from publicity gradually, hundreds of years gone, it has formed formidable influence and dominated Google searching net last three years. What he intents to reveal is becoming obviously in modern capitalism society nowadays, more and more literalists has learnt his literary style, making more and more extraordinary contribution to the harmonious relationship to each respect. It is the Red and the Black that help us to know capitalism more profoundly.
Novels "Red" has been published about the history of 200 years, why, in this ever-changing 200 years of fiction can still enduring? The reason lies in the novel not only very successful in shaping the company's claim that highly era black color, but also has the distinct personality of artistic images, but also through leading character experience, and demonstrated French restoration dynasty period vast era painting scroll, then touched many acute social problems. Even leading character in the novel experience and reflects the experience of young petty bourgeoisie universal destiny. Even behave themselves in the USA, supercilious, enthusiasm, determination, but selfish, skeptical. In monks power elite, powerful family system stern feudal society, and discriminated against by birth civilians. Such oppression of the status of his growing discontent with the reality : the impact of Enlightenment thought and caught up in his anti-character. He decided to rely on individual talents like Napoleon, a meritorious, fine. But in restoration period, Napoleon-style rank of the Road has been closed by the elite class. On this rock beneath evergreen trees to grow along. In order to get even with her all the knowledge that worthless, yet the Latin of the "New Testament" back in verse. Recite his amazing ability to let him into the home of the mayor of Victoria Aguilar Ye Fall, when a family of teachers. In that period, he and Germany. Switzerland ambiguous relationship that Mrs. occurred, mostly in resistance and retaliation for his abuse of elite class. However, growing, were blinded by the upper class in society corrupts even the soul, he contributed to the upward desire and ambitions. Even in the dark terror seminary, witnessed manipulate strategically, reveals the ugly inside, so he offered a double-dealing tactics, such behaviour has been the duplicity of the table and patrons stare. Seminary life even further distorted in the character, and strengthen his climbing ambitions and hypocrisy style. In the company to log when the Private Secretary's marquis after exposing civilians, although not the class ideology, but by the marquis trusted, Miss conquest Mateer, even in the "civilian class treason heart" has disappeared. He became a faithful restoration dynasty pawns. As a step towards him in the company for the "bright", as a result of firing Germany and Switzerland that Mrs. complete ruin their future, their present a head. As a fine critical realism novels, the "Red" and not starting from the concept will even reach into a leading character in the pursuit of personal symbols. Instead, the author has given his deep sympathy to the people through the dedicated pursuit of lust and the pursuit of less than critical to the suffering of that era specific social realities, and this is the "force" has spread charm forever good reason. 小说《红与黑》出版至今已有200年左右的历史了,为什么在这风云变幻的200年中小说仍可以经久不衰?原因在于小说不仅十分成功地塑造了于连·索黑尔这个极富时代色彩,又具有鲜明个性的艺术形象,而且通过主人公的经历,展示了法国复辟王朝时期广阔的时代画卷,触及到当时许多尖锐的社会问题。小说主人公于连的经历和遭遇反应了当时广大小资产阶级青年的普遍命运。于连生性聪颖、高傲、热情、坚毅,但又自私、多疑。在僧侣贵族当政、门阀制度森严的封建社会,因出生平民而备受歧视。这种受压迫的地位使他滋长了对现实的不满情绪:启蒙思想和拿破仑的影响,培养了他的反搞性格。他立志要像拿破仑那样靠个人才智建立功勋,飞黄腾达。但是在复辟时期,拿破仑式的晋身之道已被贵族阶层堵死了。 就在这样的岩石底下,一株小树弯弯曲曲地生长。于连为了博取大家用赏识,明知毫无价值,却还把拉丁文的《新约全书》背得滚瓜烂熟。他那惊人的背诵能力让他跨进了维立叶尔市长家,当起家庭教师来。在那段时期,他与德.瑞那夫人发生了暧昧关系,大部分是为了反抗和报复贵族阶级对他的凌辱。但是,纸醉金迷、利欲熏心的上流社会也腐蚀了于连的灵魂,助长了他向上爬的欲望和野心。 于连进入阴森恐怖的神学院后,亲眼目睹了勾心斗角、尔虞我诈的丑恶内幕,于是他便耍起了两面派手法,这种表里不一的行为居然得到院长的表睐和宠幸。神学院的生活进一步扭曲了于连的性格,强化了他向上爬的野心和虚伪的作风。于连给木尔侯爵当私人秘书后虽然还不时流露出平民阶级的思想意识,但在受到侯爵重用,征服玛特尔小姐后,于连的“平民阶级叛逆心”已消失。他成了复辟王朝的忠实走卒。正当于连一步步走向他所向往的“光明”时,因枪击德·瑞那夫人而彻底断送了自己的前程,把自己送上了断头台。 作为一部优秀的批判现实主义小说,《红与黑》并没有从概念出发,将主人公于连图解成一个追求功利的符号。相反,作者却给予了他深切的同情,通过人对欲念的执着追求与追求不到的痛苦来批判那个时代特定的社会现实,这也是《红与黑》流传至今魅力长存的原因。 可以吗?
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