Julian in Red and Black

I read the melody of a young man pursuing his ideal.

As a cowardly and shy civilian youth, in a hierarchical society, in order to realize his great ambition, he should not only show his advantages in knowledge and ability everywhere, but also take various disgraceful means, such as hypocrisy, fraud and disobedience. Just when he thought he had embarked on the road to success and got love beyond class, society mercilessly sent him to the guillotine.

Julian keeps saying things like "success", "wealth" and "the apprentice" and always envies the lives of rich people everywhere. It was in this blindness that he went astray and lost himself. He gave up real happiness for the so-called "happiness" more than once. For Lian, a belief has become the whole meaning of his life, so everything else is worth sacrificing, even love. In a word, it is necessary to "die a thousand times and make a fortune once." This is the whole value orientation of his life.

Stendhal once said: "A person's happiness depends not on what things look like in the eyes of a wise man, but on what things look like in his own eyes." Perhaps in order to make the work have certain progressive significance, even being imprisoned until death has become an irreversible foregone conclusion. Julian, who was in prison, finally got rid of the shackles of social roles and gained freedom. In his short life, he set many roles for himself. In order to play these roles well, he had to be hypocritical and pretend until he did something against his will. The approach of death gave him a chance to shed all false masks and show a true and beautiful self. Past ambitions, fantasies, struggles, and various disguises designed for this have lost their charming luster. Facing death, Julian finally knew what he was pursuing. What he said to Mrs. de renard was sincere: "You know, I have always loved you, and I only love you." When a man knows why he can die, he also knows why he should live.

Therefore, Lian is an individualistic careerist, but more accurately, he is a young man who pursues his personal ideal and unfortunately goes astray. Perhaps Lian's tragedy is the eternal tragedy of all outstanding people, whether in an authoritarian society or in a * * * and social democratic society. This kind of tragedy may be called growth or degeneration, which we ignore for the time being, but it is indeed reflected in each of us and then sublimated into a social rule.

This has caused us to think more about reality. The young people of our time are full of longing and hope for the future and destiny, and also have the desire to get ahead. We may have forgotten the first practice about ideals when we were young. In order to conform to the trend of the times and follow the law of interests, we are constantly changing and following a more decent and richer material life. Even if we have difficulty breathing and are bruised all over in the crowd, we still have to endure the inner anxiety and suffering under the gorgeous appearance.

A pair of almost dull eyes in the crowd once shone, and once embarked on their own life journey with their most authentic and simple ideals. However, in the process of hoping to become scientists, soldiers and teachers, they gradually deteriorated and became more suitable for the needs of others, becoming only for their health, at the expense of honesty, selflessness and cheerfulness. When we grow up, we try our best to cover up our innocent nature with various masks, and we are repeating the tragedy of Lian. At this time, who would have thought that when we were young, we were actually longing for eternal happiness.

Generally speaking, Julien is described as an aspirant who climbs blindly, because Julien's ambition expansion process is the most superficial and direct clue of the story, but people often ignore Stendhal's spiritual thinking standing behind the story. As a reading note, the young author chose a unique perspective from Ogu's profound stories, combined his works with feelings, virtuality with reality, and made some philosophical reflections on life. This article is a masterpiece with novel conception and delicate language.