19th century is an important period of development fou western culture and literature. Since the Renaissance, the mainstay of the modern western concept which is regarded as the core idea of modern culture, leaded to Western culture on the construction of the concept of human existence. To the 19th century, the principal of the western concept was established comprehensively. Modern western culture developed into maturity and modern Western literature also achieved the peak. The dialectical development of history makes modern western culture correctly in the modern transformation. The start of the modern concept of reason caused the profound cultural thinking again.The modern concept of the main idea has been challenged.At last,the problem of people’s existence was reinspected.