Being a good protagonist, Julien doesn't accept this reality and does everything he can to make his fame.While he's busy pursuing his fortune, Julien has a couple of high-profile sexytimes relationships with upper-class women. But those days have ended in France, and now people are pretty much born into whatever social status they'll have for the rest of their lives. Had he been born only a few decades earlier, there would have been many chances for him to rise in the world by enlisting in the army of. Now that's staying power.Stendhal's book follows the adventures of Julien Sorel, a young French peasant who dreams of becoming a Great-with-a-capital-G man. This book's critique of the hollowness and cynicism of the upper classes was so sharp that copies of The Red and the Black were still getting burned 130 years later in Brazil.
Since the, it hadn't always been clear who was in charge of the country, and this made any criticism extra uncomfortable. The Red and the Black IntroductionIf there's one thing that powerful people don't like, it's being told that they're hypocrites.Maybe that's why there was such a backlash against The Red and the Black when it was first published in France in 1830.
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