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红与黑英语读后感( 三 )


Although The Red and The Black was written in the 19th century, the novel is still of reflective value to our real world.In the modern society, we still can find out many “Juliens” 。They are young and talented, but low birth. At first, they despise the unfair treatment in the society. They hate corruption of officialdom. ()They disdain the person who has special power and privileges. However, they always long for joining in the officialdom. The iron hand of cruel necessity broke those Juliens’ wills. Once into the officialdom, they gradually lose themselves. Finally, they even enjoy in it and try to defend themselves.
In fact, they must end of failure like Julien, I think, against their wills, following the wrong mind and taking advantage of the empressement of others. Learning of Julien’s romantic liaison with Mathilde, the Marquis de la Mole is angered, but relents before her determination, and his affection for him, and bestows upon Julien an income-producing property attached to an aristocratic title, and a military commission in the army. Although ready to bless their marriage, he changes his mind upon receiving the reply to a character-reference-letter he wrote to the abbé Chénal, Julien’s previous employer in the village of Verrières; however, the reply letter, written by Madame de Rênal — at the urging of her confessor priest — warns the Marquis that Julien Sorel is a social-climbing cad who preys upon emotionally vulnerable women. On learning the Marquis’s disapproval of the marriage, Julien Sorel travels to his home village of Verrières and shoots Madame de Rênal during Mass in the village church; she survives. Despite the efforts of Mathilde, Madame de Rênal, and the priests devoted to him since his early life, Julien Sorel is determined to die — because the materialist society of Bourbon Restoration France will not accommodate a low-born man of superior intellect and aesthetic sensibility possessing neither money nor social connections.
Reading between the lines, we can find that Julien is a strong-willed and cunning young man who is determined to make his way to the upper society. Julien’s mistrustfulness and his touchy pride were through his life. He reached such heights of perfection in this kind of eloquence, which has replaced the swiftness of action found under the Empire. Julien forgot his dreary role as a rebellious plebeian. When he was in the prison, he awakened and said:” The whole world and the society are hypocritical!” He yelled out:” I love truth, but where is truth? Everyone is hypocritical and trickish, including the great people! ” He refused to appeal. Later, he was sent to the block and ended his life.
Julien is a tragical character in this novel. He represents the young people of Petty Bourgeoisie in the Bourbon Restoration. They are young and talented, but low birth. Finally, they end of death. As the novel shown, the society under control of Charles X of France was dark. There was no middle way for them. The connection between people was only money, even between father and son. When Julien was in the prison, his father visited him. At the beginning, his father scolded him. He thought that Julien was a shame of his family. While father heard of the money Julien had, father changed his attitude at once. You had money, people respected you; without money, people looked down upon you. In that society, without money, you were nothing! Julien was the victim of cash nexus. I cannot help saying:” It is an eat-man world!” If Julien lives in the modern society, without repress and exploitation of class, I believe, he must be appreciated by others and become a successful person.

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