The novel Red and Black has been published for about 200 years. Why is the novel enduring in this changeable 200 years? The reason is that the novel not only successfully created Julian Sohail, an artistic image with distinctive characteristics, but also showed the broad picture of the French Restoration Dynasty through the hero's experience and touched many sharp social problems at that time. Julian, the hero of the novel, experienced and suffered, which reflected the general fate of petty-bourgeois youth at that time. Yu Lian is smart, arrogant, enthusiastic and firm, but selfish and suspicious. In the feudal society where monks and nobles were in power and the gate system was strict, they were discriminated against because they came from civilians. This oppressed position cultivated his dissatisfaction with reality: the influence of the Enlightenment and Napoleon cultivated his anti-corruption character. He is determined to make great achievements by relying on personal intelligence like Napoleon. However, during the restoration period, Napoleon's promotion was blocked by the aristocratic class.

Just under such a rock, a small tree twists and turns. In order to gain everyone's appreciation, Julian knew it was worthless, but he also recited the Latin New Testament. His amazing reciting ability made him step into the mayor's house in Villier and become a tutor. During that time, he and Germany. Mrs. Rena had an affair, mostly to resist and retaliate against the abuse of the aristocratic class. The upper-class society obsessed with money also corroded Lian's soul and encouraged his desire and ambition to climb up.

After Julian entered the gloomy seminary, he witnessed the ugly inside story of intrigue and intrigue, so he played a two-faced trick and was favored by the dean. Life in the seminary further distorted Julian's character and strengthened his ambition to climb up and his hypocritical style. Although Julian showed the ideology of the common people from time to time after becoming the private secretary of Marquis Muir, after being reused by Marquis and conquering Miss martel, Julian's "rebellious heart of the common people" has disappeared. He became a loyal pawn of the restoration dynasty. Just as he was moving towards the "light" he longed for step by step, he completely ruined his future and put himself on the guillotine by shooting Madame de Rena.

As an excellent critical realism novel, Red and Black does not interpret the protagonist Julian as a symbol of pursuing utility from the concept. On the contrary, the author gave him deep sympathy and criticized the specific social reality of that era through people's persistent pursuit of desire and the pain they could not pursue, which is also the reason why Red and Black has been circulated to this day.