Introduction of red and black
Red and Black is a novel created by French writer Stendhal and his masterpiece. The work tells the story of Julian, the son of the protagonist small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was a tutor at the local mayor's house. After the story was revealed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. On the recommendation of the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris and worked as a private secretary for the Marquis of larmor, the backbone of the ultra-royalist party, and was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. Meanwhile, Julian was having an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the planning of the church, the mayor's wife was forced to write and expose him, which ruined his successful career. In a rage, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife, was sentenced to death and went to the guillotine.
The story of the background novel "Red and Black" was reportedly taken from a death penalty case published in the Court Newspaper on February 29th, 1828. In the Napoleonic era, red and black represented "the army" and "the church" respectively, which were two channels for the development of ambitious French youth (red and black on roulette).
When Stendhal wrote Red and Black, the French bourgeois revolution led by Napoleon had failed, and he wanted to finish Napoleon's unfinished business with his own pen. He wants to reproduce Napoleon's greatness through red and black, and attack the darkness of the Restoration Dynasty. Therefore, the author uses "red and black" to symbolize the creative background of the work: "red" symbolizes the blood and revolution during the French Revolution; And "black" means monk's robe, which symbolizes the feudal restoration dynasty with rampant church power.