Red and black" is one of the most outstanding and most representative works in the novels of the Tang Dynasty. It shows a broad picture of the 1830s French society, involving French provincial capital Paris from many aspects of the life style of writing; the prime minister, the emperor kings and nobles, write everyday, ordinary people; through the church, political parties and various classes of intricate complex contradictions related to Charlie, ten under the reign of French politics the struggle and social contradictions, and the ways of the world customs, as a true and vivid picture.

The hero of the novel, Julien Sorel -, is a family of peasant farmers but the youth be a brilliant man of wide "learning. The young aspiring never rise above the common herd, poor, longing for the life of Napoleon boiling time, eager to make contributions through the army, float upon the clouds. But in the restoration period of the reign of emperor, in France under the extreme anti democratic aristocratic bourgeoisie, Julien saw that this road had been blocked. Only through the way of church could he expect to enter the upper class society. The title of the novel is "red and black", and red is the symbol of the army, and the black is the symbol of the church.

Even at the beginning of the mayor of Victoria Aguilar ye fall？ The house Rui as a governess, in retaliation for bourgeois aristocratic contempt, finding a quick climb to the shortcut, he quickly won the favor of the mayors wife, became her lover, so to enter the monastery to study, in an attempt to reach the purpose of developed. He finally arrived in Paris, had the honor to be the Marquis de la - Moores private secretary, and hooked up with marquis the article from the secretarial resource network of female leading character. Is getting married and Matt, realize their dreams of the mayors wife successful in the official career, out of jealousy, in letting her to confess her priests, to Marquis wrote a long letter to expose him to the scandal, even in the dream and ambition were completely shattered. After his despair, he was shot by Mrs. Nelson, who was severely punished, and ended up on the scaffold to end his short life.

In the entire life of the pursuit of happiness. So he can make in the days after the so-called high society. What is happiness, how to get happiness, is puzzled for thousands of years of human problems, but also puzzled in the company. In his mind, happiness is not exactly the standard, but in his mind, in his vigilance, and in his another "campaign plan" and its implementation. He is for the first time to get rid of the fathers of the abuse and happiness, for the front of Mrs. de Reiner perform "some responsibility" and happy, proud of Mathilde in front of their yield and happiness, for a fortune and happy. He is eager to happiness, eager to become a member of the society, for he vowed that he would die one thousand successful in the official career, to do he want to have the successful in the official career, noble status, and admiration. To this end, he created one after another "campaign plan", which used all kinds of mean and false means, all of which made his superhuman intelligence play the most incisive. But after all, he kept the true and good side of his heart, so in every happiness he would ask himself and be deeply reproach. Therefore, his plan will always make people doubt Its loopholes appeared one after another..

From which we can see that happiness is indeed rare and precious treasure, a sentence in the "red and black": "power! Sir, dont calculate what？ A respect, the young rich surprise, envy, contempt of sage. "It seems barnave - power is also very important, of course, in the eyes of a few people may not be so. Have power, can get a lot, also will lose a lot, there may be some, what are not, just like in that "regret a previous mistake". Nevertheless, there are still many people want to successful in the official career, after all successful in the official career in the eyes of some people is "no harm". Power and happiness may not like fish and bears paw can not have both, of course, it may also be a kind of happiness, but the power will ruin a lifetime struggle are not things, such as happiness.

The outcome of the final, even "die", Mrs. de Reiner died in the subsequent three days. In the story that looks like a cup, there is an amazing and admirable "perfect" end. Do you choose power or happiness？ It is interesting for us to read it.