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When two extremely ignorant and sheltered people from the opposite ends of financial standing have a lust for eachother, it is the blind leading the blind.

Though Julien Sorel is young and is blinded by heroic thoughts of Napoleon, almost idealizing him as a god, prostrating himself to this murky idea of himself as an icarus with no qualms of the sun, I find him incredibly irritating. Yes, he is in youth, and learning. Unbeknownst to him or not, he is machiavellian as it gets, using people as tools, and being a people pleaser to obtain his hypocritical goals.