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The Thorn Birds novel is a beautiful story by Colleen McCullough, an eminent author from Australia. It is a beautiful love story counted among the best love novels of modern times. The Thorn Birds novel by Colleen McCullough is set on a sheep station in Drogheda, Australia. It depics the sweeping love between the lonesome Meggie Cleary and the handsome Roman Catholic priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart which eventually ends up in an ill fated tragedy. The story continues describing the course of the trails and rewards of the life of some of ihabitants of an Australian desert and gives a life sketch of a woman who had her first love devastated due to the unavailability of the man she loved.
The plot of Thorn Birds novel is based on the life of a beautiful red-gold haired lonesome girl named Meggie Cleary moves to Drogheda with her family, where her brothers soon get busy with the work in the ranch and she has to leave school to look after the young ones in the family. She soon befriends the handsome priest named Ralph de Bricassart. Time passes on, Meggie grow up to be a beautiful damozel and their friendship resembles love. There appears the crooked Mary Carson, ho being jealous destruct their love by turning the ranch to a Roman Catholic Church, and elevating De Bricassart ‘s position to a bishop posted far away from Drogheda.
Meggie’s heart breaks and she marries Luke O'Neill, a man resembling De Bricassart to some extent. They move to Queensland. Meggiee’s husband never loved her and lived apart from her, forcing her to work as a servant for a Queensland couple, Anne and Ludwig MuellerDuring one of the visits from her husband Meggie conceives their daughter, Justine. Exhausted by this unhappy marriage Meggie visits a honeymoon resort of Matlock alone, where de Bricassart joins her. After this Meggie realizes that she is pregnant, and seeks to be physical with her husband, so the child should not be nameless. De Bricassart moves to Rome but he never realizes that Dane, the bright young son of Meggie is his own child. Dane also goes to Rome to study priesthood but dies in Greece while saving a drowning woman. These leave Meggie confused amidst whether to choose her own comfort or the independence of her actress daughter Justine. She being unselfish tells Justine to go her way and not to ruin it by submerging it like the other women of the Cleary clan has done before her.
The name of the Thorn Birds novel is based on a legend of a bird which sings only for once in its entire life at the cost of great pain and the song seems to be the sweetest of all. The name signifies the tender, painful and forbidden love of Father Ralph and Meggie to the greatest extent.
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