Red and Black (Scarlet and Black)

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Red and Black (Scarlet and Black)

• ----Stendhal

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About Stendhal

• Stendhal was the pen name of Henri Marie
  Beyle (??.??), born in Grenoble (??? ??? )
  on January 23, 1783.
• He came from a solidly middle-class family
  his father was a barrister and his mother was the
  daughter of a physician. His mother died when he
  was seven, and he grew to adore her memory and
  hate what his father represented to
  himbourgeois(???) manners and the pursuit of
  money.
• Feeling trapped in his home, the boy
  developed a vivid imagination and a taste for
  daydreaming.

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Stendhals experience(1)

• At the age of 17, Stendhal went to Paris and soon
  joined Napoleon's army in Italy. He enjoyed a
  number of romantic liaisons. After Napoleon's
  defeat, Stendhal left for Italy and settled in
  Milan. He began to write books about art and
  music, and first used the name "Stendhal in
  1817.
• He returned to Paris in 1821 and he wrote a
  number of books in the next several years.
• He was appointed Consul (???)to Trieste after the
  1830 revolution, and was soon sent to the town
  outside Rome.

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Stendhals experience(2)

• Stendhal began to write"Red and Black"in1829,and
  finished in 1830.
• In 1836, he returned to Paris because of ill.
• Stendhals health began to deteriorate(??)
  sharply in early 1841, when he suffered an attack
  of apoplexy(??)?
• He died of a stroke on March 23, 1842.
• During his lifetime, his fiction was little
  appreciated. It was many years before critics
  recognized Stendhal's works as worthy enough to
  set beside those of Balzac and Gustave Flaubert.

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Plot Summary

• During this period, he became Mrs de Renals
  lover. As the love story brought to light, he was
  forced to leave Victoria to the provincial
  capital city of Egypt, and went to
  Seminary(??????) to study theology.
• Julien Sorel was born in a peasant family. He was
  thin but handsome, talented, and ambitious.
  Julien realized that only through the Church can
  be among the upper class. He was proficient(??)
  in Latin, So he became the tutor of Mr de Renals
  children's
• He later was recommended by the priests Pirard to
  be the Secretary of The Marquis de La Mole.The
  Marquis's daughter, Mathilde,fell in love with
  Julien.
• While he was prepared to marry daughter. Mrs de
  Renals letter made Juliens whistle-blowers all
  come to naught.
• Finally, Julian was sent to the guillotine,
  ending his short life.

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• the Black, Stendhal paints a sweeping portrait of
  early nineteenth-century.
• He paints a lively, satirical picture of French
  Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with
  corruption, greed, and ennui

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• The Red and Blackdominate French society in
  the years following the Revolution.
• "Red" refers to the French soldiers in red
  uniforms, on behalf of the bourgeois
  revolutionary forces
• Black" refers to the period of restoration of
  the monks in black, on behalf of the Church of
  the feudal forces.
• The title itself implies that the two opposing
  camps of acute conflict

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Julien(1)

• Throughout the novel, the story of Napoleon is
  central to Juliens idea of himself as a man who
  can aspire(??) to success despite his low birth.
• He draws almost all of his ideas, and many of his
  feelings from Napoleon.

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Julien(2)

• Julien was born in a poor family,but he was
  unwilling to be a plain person. He also had
  strong self-respect.
• He has great ambition.He tried to seek success
  and happiness.This also reflects Standhals own
  opinion----indivualism.

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Julien(3)

• Although Julien is indisputably(?????) the
  novel's central character, whether we should see
  him as a hero or not is an open question.
• At the end of the novel, Stendhal places us in
  the same position as the jury at Julien's trial,
  in effect asking us to evaluate Julien and
  compare our verdict with the court's.

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The authors attitude

• Beyond the figure of Julien himself, Stendhal's
  presentation of a social world frequently
  dominated by lying, cheating, and stealing offers
  a hint of the author's possible intentions.
• In the course of the novel it is clear that the
  provinces, the seminaries, and the city are
  fundamentally alike in the types of behavior they
  breed and frequently reward.
• This novel ends appropriately with Stendhal's
  dedication of the novel "To the happy life" .We
  are left to determine the identity of the
  happy, and whether we count Julienand
  ourselvesamong them.

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• Thank you!

----LiuXiu