Mathilde de La Mole / 马蒂尔德·德·拉莫尔
Mathilde de La Mole is the aristocratic young woman in Stendhal’s 《红与黑》, discussed in 21.红与黑：他死于真诚 as proud, intelligent, theatrical, and dissatisfied with the safe men around her. The episode presents her attraction to Julien Sorel as partly a recognition that he is not willing to live entirely on his knees.
Her relationship with Julien is read as a contest of pride and role-playing. Unlike Madame de Renal’s plain sincerity, Mathilde is drawn to drama, family legend, aristocratic romance, and the feeling that love should be historically grand or dangerous.
The episode refuses to make Mathilde a thin “bad woman” or a mere obstacle. Her pregnancy, persistence, and attempts to rescue Julien after the shooting show agency under aristocratic constraint, making her part of the source’s Female Subjectivity In Classic Reading / 经典阅读中的女性主体性 branch.
Connections
- 《红与黑》 - novel in which she appears.
- Julien Sorel / 于连·索雷尔 - lover and pride rival.
- Madame de Renal / 雷奈尔夫人 - contrasting female figure in the episode’s reading.
- Class Mobility Performance / 阶级上升表演 - Mathilde’s aristocratic world is the setting Julien tries to enter.
- Passion Against Self-Control / 激情与自我控制 - their relationship stages alternating strategy, jealousy, and theatrical feeling.
- Female Subjectivity In Classic Reading / 经典阅读中的女性主体性 and Female Self-Possession - concepts extended by the source.