Father Lal once said that there is something unpredictable about Julien, which makes Julien either successful in career or trampled underfoot, and there is no middle way to go. That kind of thing may be his rebellion, his pursuit of honor that should not belong to him. If he doesn't get the honor he thinks he deserves, his pursuit is likely to be laughed at by those noble people who have honor. To pursue something that doesn't belong to you is to get it. So, live with honor or be completely destroyed.
Julian's life is doomed to struggle in this outline, and so is he when he does concrete things. When he does many things, he always likes to push himself into a corner. Either get the success you need, or lose your reputation or even your life. The second time he climbed into Mathilde's room, he told himself that if he climbed up, he would either regain her love or come back and commit suicide. There is no middle way. Never give yourself a way out.
Even there are always two completely different extremes. Different extremes are intertwined, just as beautiful ceramics are made of clay, and they gain eternal life in the alternation of fire and water, even in the red and black of Stendhal.
The result is also extreme, either becoming priceless porcelain with fiery life, or becoming a pile of worthless mud and throwing it into a dark corner.
Read the 400-word model essay of Red and Black
With the approaching of summer vacation and the beginning of the new semester, I spent time reading Red and Black, a world famous book about the death of Stendhal. Every time I finish reading a book, I get lost in thought and write some thoughts after reading it. After reading Red and Black, I can't write any more. What do "red" and "black" mean? I'm at a loss. Perhaps, for a middle school student, the ideas and connotations in this book are a bit abstruse.
What is "red"? What is "black"? I asked my father, but he was not sure. He just told me some suggestions for reference. Red may represent the advanced bourgeois liberalism at that time, while black may represent the interests of backward church aristocrats. There is also the following statement: red and black are explained together, which is the contradiction between being humble and trying to squeeze into the upper class.
After I understand these explanations, I still don't quite understand. I really don't know what these three words stand for. Maybe they are nothing, or maybe they are random phrases that the author thought of on a whim. They are all incomprehensible and unknowable. But one thing, red is not black, black is not red, and red and black all firmly believe in their Excellence.
After reading red and black, I still don't understand the meaning of red and black
A 400-word model essay on red and black
Red and black are like red dots and black dots on a reading disk. This roulette wheel symbolizes a game called life.
Even talented, self-respecting, beautiful, the most fundamental and pure is just an ambitious man. What Julian has is only the cornerstone of paving the way for becoming an ambitious person.
Julian, 19 years old, grew up in a mercenary and violent family. He worships Napoleon crazily and longs to be the master of the world with a long sword like Napoleon. But in a hierarchical society, as an ambitious civilian, he can only pursue his own happiness, so in his short life, even ordering himself to play those different roles, he learned to pretend and learn hypocrisy. So he can hang out in the upper class, get the title of aristocrat, have money and have the love he thinks. However, on the way forward, he lost his vitality and his original dream.
Julian's love is strange. He fell in love with Mrs. Denell for self-esteem and made Mathilde fall in love with him for self-esteem. Julian's love always revolves around his self-esteem. Julian is conquering love, which is a mistake in itself. He can sensitively refuse Mrs. De Nall's concern, but he can't refuse Mr. De Nall's insulting 100 francs.
After all, teenagers who are eager to fly have not defeated their own destiny while losing the beauty of the past. In prison, Lian realized how empty the happiness he pursued in his life was, and finally took off all the masks before death. The truest and most beautiful Lian said to her first lover, "You know, I have always loved you, and I only love you."
Red-a color full of life and passion.
Black-hypocrisy in human nature, all dark depravity.
The collision between red and black evokes people's thinking about life.