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	'''Meggie Cleary''' is the main character of ], a 1977 best selling novel by Australian author ]. The 1983 mini-series 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, 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 it's personal suffering, heartache and trial that Meggie finds a sense of peace, and inner fulfillment.


	Although she and Priest Ralph de Bricassart never marry, they remain forever in love. Priest de Bricassart 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.

	Priest de Bricassart 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.

	In contrast for example, to the film the "Godfather", another family saga, The reason people may not be as familiar with the characters in the Thorn Birds miniseries, as with the characters from the Godfather film,is because the Thorn Birds film was made for television, instead of the Silver screen.


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