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uding the progress of animal husbandry, rancher "painstaking efforts" and its effect on the employee's brutal exploitation. The book is divided into seven, each with a human-centered, but contact with each other, consistent. The book runs through the clues is the love affair between the heroine, Maggie and priest Ralph disputes. Ralph longing for the supreme power of the Holy See, at the exhaustion of effort got into the heart of the Catholic Church and use various of means to achieve the purpose; but the prime of life as a flesh and blood man, he could not help the feelings of the temptation, which led to his deep inner conflicts, as well as intentionally or unintentionally added to the Maggie who can not get rid of the pain. Maggie's aunt, Mary's death, this contradiction is sharp prominent. She left behind legacy enough to make Ralph his dream of "Cardinal" jobs, but if Ralph did in the dark to seize the property should belong to Maggie home. Ultimately his right to desire to win from him and Maggie are separated. The heroine, Maggie was born in a self-strict religious family, her mother was born in the door of the aristocracy, but was abandoned by the lover. No regrets so she took the extreme bitter marry Maggie's father, lived a poor day, guarding the illegitimate son of her former lover. Because of his own experience, she has ignored the presence of the Maggie, that women born with destiny. Also because the kind of family, Ralph's closeness help to make young Maggie have a kind of special feeling of closeness. In order to achieve Ralph's true love ,Maggie had to struggle with the God for lifetime but failed finally.
1.2 writing backgrounds
"The Thorn Birds"is the most prestigious literature work of Colleen McCullough which is introduced in the 1977. This novel is a combination of all of life experience and view of the Australian society, life, religion in mid-twentieth century. Australia is a large land area with sparsely populated country, only some of the indigenous people of the original inhabitants lived there.In mid-nineteenth century, the footsteps of the Western colonizers broke the calm of the Australian,and the curtain of immigrant to Australia had opened.The arrival of immigrants brought vigor and vitality to the relatively backward and desolate continent, Christianity walked into this country with footsteps of immigrants , and religion as an important link of communication and exchange of people, give people a firm conviction and courage to overcome all difficulties,and promote the development of civilization in Australia to some extent.After World War II, Australia and the world cultural exchanges become more frequently.Large-scale immigrant absorption is an important decision-making by Australian Government after post-war, immigrations brought social thought of the United States, Britain,Newzealand and other Western countries into Australia,thus contributing to tremendous changes in the Australian moral values and ideology.Australia's existing religious beliefs are also severe social and ideological turmoil of the crisis. In this era of the social context,Australian writers and artists began to think and began to explore the value and meaning of life, thinking human suffering, as well as the existence of God, whether the person responsible for the profound and who painful issue.Colleen McCullough began the creation of "The Thorn Birds"