"Red and Black" is a long process, because time has given writers and works the most selfless and fair evaluation. My reading attitude cannot be as unscrupulous as a bestseller, nor can I be as noncommittal as a romance novel. I am talking to that era with my heart, and the focus is also on exploration and thinking outside history.

What led me to finish the book was its great charm. The author shows the broad social picture of that era from a simple criminal case data, and raises an ordinary criminal offence to the level of historical and philosophical research on the French bourgeois social system at the beginning of the19th century.

The novel let me see something that I can't feel in the blunt history books, the critical period when French big noble and the bourgeoisie were in power alternately. From this, I learned another artistic feature of realistic works-Stendhal's "soul dialectics" to the person he fell in love with; This is different from what I used to do from the old man Gao in Eugénie? Balzac's "Creating a Person's Situation" in Grandet is very different.

The most dazzling and literary figure in the book is naturally Julian? Sorrell, "a commoner, with higher education, worked as a tutor, had an affair with his mistress, exposed it, shot his lover and was sentenced to death" is his life skeleton. His passion and persistence for happiness, his resistance to class differences, showed almost heroic spirit, which was touching.

What the author strengthened by downplaying material description and emphasizing spiritual tracing is Lian Chu's experience of pursuing "heroic dream" under the impulse of youth, a resistance to that social form, and also a resistance to mediocrity and wasted youth. When social reality hinders the realization of ambition, there are only two choices: retreat or resist.

Those young people who don't make progress in front of small staff and complain about boring life all day are all people who give up halfway. They may be mediocre and comfortable, but they are eliminated by social progress. It is a rebel with the same spirit as Lian who can constantly set life goals and decide to realize life ideals.

This era certainly does not welcome hypocritical words and deeds as a means, but it still needs enthusiasm for life to resist the emptiness of life. In this way, Lian's tragic ending not only shows that "individual resistance is not feasible", but also has more practical significance to today's society.