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| | name = Meggie Cleary | |||
| | series = '']'' | |||
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| | caption = ] as the young Meggie Cleary | |||
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| | children = Justine, Dane | |||
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| | residence = Australia | |||
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| '''Meggie Cleary''' is the main character of '']'', a 1977 best selling novel by Australian author ]. The 1983 ] starred ] as Meggie. | |||
| The novel is set at a sheep station in the ]n outback between the years 1920 and 1962. The story focuses on the Clearys and Meggie's forbidden love for the priest ], who fathers her son but remains in the priesthood. | |||
| Meggie Cleary throughout the Thorn Birds film remains obsessed with the one | |||
| love of her life, Father Ralph de Bricassart. | |||
| She is torn between the longings of her heart, and finding a sense of fulfillment in the reality of mature womanhood, and life. | |||
| Meggie embodies the title of the Thorn Birds miniseries.... the Nightingale in seeking the beauty of life as a thorn bird, sets upon a rose tree laden | |||
| with thorns who is pierced through, and sings the most beautiful song as she dies. | |||
| Meggie's life appears to be destined for heartache and pain as she loses those the most dear to her heart. | |||
| First her older beloved brother Frank a ruddy country gentleman with tremendous gusto and a gift for energetic doggerel, next a baby brother, another brother she loved in childhood, Stewie, as well her father Paddy..... and finally her | |||
| son, Dane. | |||
| It is at this point, at the death of Dane, that Meggie begins to experience | |||
| life in all of its personal suffering, heartache and trial that Meggie finds a sense of peace, and inner fulfillment. | |||
| Although she and Father Ralph de Bricassart never marry, they remain forever in love. Father Ralph dies in Meggie's arms. | |||
| The death of de Bricassart represents a closure in one passage of Meggie's life, toward the beginning of a new life in relationship with her daughter, Justine, and a deeper understanding of her mother,Fiona, and herself, in middle age. | |||
| Meggie Cleary is one of the most poignant of characters in television film, conveying life's vast range of human emotions... Meggie as a young girl, was forced to grow up and see life as an adult, rather than to develop into that passage of life, in a normal sense. | |||
| Father Ralph, while a true anchor, in Meggie's life from childhood to adult, at the same time complicates her life with emotions and longings | |||
| that an adult woman struggles to comprehend as is more often, than not the case. | |||
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