荆棘鸟中女性人物分析

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题目: The Analysis of Female Characters in

The Thorn Birds

荆棘鸟中女性人物分析

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have given me much help in my pursuit of the bachelor’s degree and in my thesis writing.

First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Mrs. Li, who has offered me her insightful comments and enlightening suggestions in the whole course of my thesis writing. Without her patient instructions, I could hardly have completed my thesis.

Second, I wish to express my sincere thanks to professors and teachers at the Department of English, who have instructed and helped me a lot in my English learning. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my roommates and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and times in listening to me and helping me work out my problems in these four years.

Last but not least, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their understanding and support which have relieved me of a lot of anxieties and tensions that have accompanied my studies all through these years.

摘要

《荆棘鸟》为澳大利亚著名女作家考琳·麦卡洛所作，它于1977年问世后便在全球范围内引起极大的轰动，被誉为澳大利亚的《飘》。在澳大利亚独特的文化背景中，该书以爱情和命运的主题，展现了克里利家族三代女性的坎坷的人生经历与丰富而复杂情感历程。本文首先对这部小说和作者及荆棘鸟的含义做了介绍，然后对小说中四位女性：玛丽·卡森、菲奥娜、梅吉及朱丝婷的人生历程进行剖析，探讨她们不懈地追求各自的爱情和对传统女性命运勇敢反抗的精神，以及在特定的时代中女性自我意识的觉醒。由此通过分析得出结论：女性只有树立正确的爱情观，勇于追求爱，挑战命运，坚持不懈，才能获得幸福，实现自我价值。

关键词:荆棘鸟;女性角色;爱情观;命运;自我意识

ABSTRACT

The Thorn Birds written by Australian famous woman writer Colleen McCullough has caused tremendous sensation throughout the world since it was published in1977 and is called Australian Gone with the Wind. Based on the unique background of Australian culture, the novel unfolds life experiences and emotional journey of the females of three generations in the Cleary family. First，this thesis includs a brief introduction to the writer, the novel and the symbolism of the thorn and the thorn birds. Afterwards it makes a deep analysis of the life course of the four female characters of three generations- Mary Carson, Fiona, Meggie, Justin, and explores the spirit of their untiring pursuit for love and brave resistance of traditional female fate, as well as the awakening of female’s self-consciousness in a certain period. A conclusion is drawn that women can gain happiness and realize self-value, as long as they establish correct love views and are brave enough to pursue love and challenge the destinies.

Key words: The Thorn Birds; Women images; Love view; Self-consciousness

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements (i)

Abstract in Chinese (ii)

Abstract in English (ii)

1. Introduction (1)

1.1 Introduction to the novel (1)

1.2 Introduction to the author and her works (1)

2. Analysis of major characters in the novel (2)

2.1 Fiona— silenced, constraining, obedient (2)

2.1.1Fiona’s Subversive Love for Pakeha (2)

2.1.2 Fiona’s Submits to the Fate (2)

2.2 Mary Carson—subversive, scheming, unsympathetic (3)

2.2.1 Mary Carson’s crazy and selfish love for Ralph (3)

2.2.2 Mary Carson’s Fight against the Fate (4)

2.3 Meggie— brave, persistent, stubborn (4)

2.3.1 Meggie’s forbidden love for Ralph (5)

2.3.2 Meggie’s resistance to Catholism and fate (5)

2.4 Justine— rebellious, independent, passionate (6)

2.4.1 Justine’s harmonious love with Rainer (6)

3. The causes of their different fate (7)

3.1 The causes of Mary Carson, Fiona and Meggie’s tragic fate (7)

3.2 The rea sons of Justine’s success in resisting fate (7)

4. Conclusion (8)

Bibliography (9)

The Analysis of Female Characters in The Thorn Birds

1. Introduction

1.1 Introduction to the novel

The Thorn Birds is a saga novel about three generations of an Australian family—-the Clearys from 1915 to 1965, and is also a beautiful love story that takes place in the outback of Australia with a tale of a strong bond that turns into the strongest love. Hate, pain, love, and happiness all involved in this beautiful tale of Meggie Cleary and Ralph de Bricassart.

The epic begins with "Meggie" Cleary, a four-year-old girl living in New Zealand in the early 1920s. Meggie lives together with her father Paddy, an Irish farm laborer, and Fee, her harassed but aristocratic mother, and three elder brothers in New Zealand. The large, poor family lived a hard life until one day when Paddy’s sister, Mary Carson, one of the richest women in Australia, who lives on an enormous sheep station called Drogheda mail a letter in which she promises to offer Paddy a job on her estate. Paddy accepts the invitation with delight. Then the whole family moves to the Drogheda.

Here Meggie meets Ralph de Bricassart, a good friend of Mary Carson, picked up the Clearys from the station. He is a young, intelligence. and ambitious priest who as punishment for insulting a bishop, has been relegated to a remote parish in the town of Gillanbone, near Drogheda. Then Ralph and the family become good friends, while he and the ten-year-old Cleary daughter Meggie become very close. Ralph takes Meggie to school at the convent next to the church he works at and gives her a pretty room in the rectory so that she can stay with him. Gradually, Meggie grows up to be a stunning young lady and falls in love with the handsome and considerate priest. Ralph loves Meggie, too. However, he is far too self-absorbed and ambitious to show some humanity and admit his love to Meggie, so he is torn between his love for Meggie, his love for God and his ambition to rise in the Catholic hierarchy.

The Thorn Birds composes a melancholy and miserable but also solemn and stirring symphony by four characters (the Cleary women: Mary Carson, Fiona, her daughter, Meggie, and Me ggie’s daughter, Justine) who are very brave to fight against their fate and social custom for their faith. The enchantment of this book first lies in its subject—love and destiny, and its symbol—the thorn bird. It shows profoundly the impermanence and the weird twist of the fate. By describing the Clearys’ penetrative, frustrating love journey, the author tries to show a truth that the true love and the beauty should be attained with incredible pain and unimaginable cost. This thesis will discuss the differences among the three women and analyze the women spirits toward their love and fate.

1.2 Introduction to the author and her works

Colleen McCullough was born on June 1st, 1937, in a Catholic family in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia and married Ric Robinson, on April 13, 1984. She graduated from University of Sydney and University of South Wales, B.S.(With honors)and got her M.S. from Institute of Child Health of London University. From 1958 to 1963, she was a founder of and

worker at the Department of Neurophysiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney. And then from 1967 to 1977 she worked at Yale University, School of Internal Medicine,in New Haven, CT, associate in research neurology department. Since 1976, she has also worked as a tea cher, a library worker, a bus driver in Australia’s Outback, and in journalism.

His working experiences constitute the major background of several of her fictions. McCullough has strong interests in reading since she was a little girl and she was said to b e “the only bookish person in an athletic family”. The books she read covered from romances to science fictions that helped her to get very well prepared for her later literary career.

Nowadays she is well-known for her fictions .She is the author of several extraordinary novels such as : Tim(1974), An Indecent Obsession(1982), A Creed for the Third Millennium(1985), Fortunes Favorites(1993), Caesar’s Women(1995), The Song of Troy(1998), Morgan’s Run(2000), The October Horse(2002), The Touch(2003), and Antony and Cleopatra(2007). The books she read covered from romances to science fictions that helped her to get very well prepared for her later literary career. Besides novels, she also writes prose, biography, and even melodrama. As far as her writing of fiction is concerned, she writes a variety of sorts of fiction, consisting of historical novel, love story, so on and so forth, and above all, the worldwide bestseller, saga novel—The Thorn Birds, soon after its publication, it became an international bestseller in over 20 languages. Time Magazine equals it to The God Father, Love Story and seven other stories, all of which are famed as modern ten classics. Musical, films and TV series adapted from it also have everlasting charm to the audience.

Colleen McCullough is familiar with Australia. In The Thorn Birds she gives a vivid description of it. The picturesque settings of the story enable readers to enjoy the unique Australia scenery. With this novel, readers can visit the far corners of the Australia outback and feel the love and yearning that Meggie and Ralph experienced.

2. Analysis of major characters in the novel

2.1 Fiona— silenced, constraining, obedient

As the first generation of Clearys, Fiona is a very beautiful, graceful but taciturn lady from a noble family. However, her fate is an undoubted tragic because she falls in love with an impossible man-Pakeha. But she forced to marry someone unknown because of family’s reputation. After marriage, she resigns herself to the unfair fate and regards it as predestinate. She pained for retrospection and could not step out of the circle of waiting for someone in nowhere. As a woman, her value is stipulated by the patriarchal society.

2.1.1Fiona’s Subversive Love for Pakeha

Fiona lives in the 19th century, and she is graceful lady and the only daughter in a noble family of Newlands. In such a traditional family, her fate has already been determined since she has no independent position or economic incomes. She has no freedom to choose her own life, what she can do is to follow her father’s idea-a trip to the old country, a debut at court, the right husband. However, her father’s plan goes broke because Fee falls in love with Pakeha, a

politician who has already got married. In The Thorn Bird s, Fiona’s love fo r Pakeha is described in the following way: “I love that man! Perhaps it was the call of our blood, I don’t know. He was handsome, a big man with a mop of black hair and the most brilliant, laughing black eyes. He was everything Paddy wasn’t cultured, soph isticated, very charming. I loved him to the point of madness. And I thought I’d never love anyone else”. (P243, 18) After the marriage, she becomes indifference to anyone or anything, all her enthusiasm is put on her first son, Frank. The child stole from her beloved man and becomes her spiritual existence. When Frank left home, Padddy ever said to Father Ralph: “I’ve always known she loved Frank more than the rest of us put together, she must love his father” (p256,8). In the rest of Fee’s life, she never has forgotten Pakeha.

In a patriarchal society, only a good marriage can prove women’s existence in the world, and reflect their value in society. It is an unbearable thing for women to strive for their love on their own will, as women are subordinated to men. As a result, when Fiona gives birth to Pakeha’s son, she was thrown away by her family and Pakeha.

2.1.2 Fiona’s Submits to the Fate

It is said that women are blind before love. To Fiona, it is true. At the age of sixteen, Fee falls in love with Pakeha who has already got married and much older than her. Fee thinks he will divorce for her, but Pakeha is an important politician, who has a big influence on that area, if he choose fee, he has to give up career and fame. Finally the man chooses his career and leaves Fee .Fee is brave in the times when virginity was regarded as women’s greatest treasure. After pregnancy, she is immediately abandoned by her family and force to marry Paddy-a man from underclass for the family reputation. When facing all theses situation, she never tried to struggle with her fate.

After marriage, in others eyes, Fee is a perfect wife. She is beautiful, hard-working and submissive. In her mind “The house was women’s work. No male member of the family was to put his hand to a fe male task”. To be a housewife, she has submitted to the rule imposed upon women and think female is inferior to male. On the other hand, she becomes indifferent to anyone or anything except the eldest son-Frank. She always follows her husband’s idea withou t a word and never shows her true feelings and emotions. After Frank’s leaving, “There had not a flicker of emotion in those soft grey eyes, not hardening nor accusation, hate or sorrow”,(P98,13 ) as if she had simply been waiting for the blow to fall like a condemned dog for the killing bullet, knowing her fate and powerless to avoid it.” Although she loves Frank more than others all together, she accepts his leaving with quietness. She resigns herself to the unfair fate and don’t want to revolt it. Just l ike she once said: “I can never be free, and I don’t want to be free.”(P289, 14) No matter to man or to fate, she has become a totally obedient woman.

2.2 Mary Carson—subversive, scheming, unsympathetic

In The Thorn Birds, Mary Carson is another women character who is embodied with female subjectivity. She is a very sophisticated character. From a man’s point of view in a patriarchy society, she is a devil. But from a feminist’s point of view, she is a respectable rebel, an

unfortunate woman. When first appeared in the novel, Marry Carson was already 65 years old. A lady at such an age was supposed to be kind, tolerant and sometimes slow in thinking. But she was harsh and very quick-witted. People around her hate her; calling her “a bid spider”, meanwhile, they admired her as she was so capable of scheming. She chose to marry a man she doesn’t love in order to make a fortune, but she fell in love with a priest in her sixties and left all her property to him, to the church. Her action and choice were very subversive.

2.2.1 Mary Carson’s crazy and selfish love for Ralph

Mary Carson takes possession of a large amount of property and lives in Drogheda, a great pasture. She has been a widow for so many years, but she refuses to marry again. She was not born into money or is not so charming, but besides her genius, the great effort makes her lead a fruitful life. When she meets Ralph, she was at her sixties, but she crazily falls in love with this remarkable appearance. Once Mary realized he love for Ralph, she began to take actions. She provided Ralph with all the luxurious living conditions and created a lot of time for their togethering. She even frankly told Ralph: “I have loved you. God, how much! Do you think my years automatically preclude it? Well, Father de Bricassart, let me tell you something. Inside this stupid body, I’m still young, I still feel, I still want, I still dream…” (P324, 7) What Mary Carson said and what she did break the stereotype that women have always been passive when facing love. A kind of both vigorous and valuable female consciousness was expressed. But the female consciousness shown in Mary’s personality brought her no happiness of love. On the contrary, after refused by Ralph, she turned her love into envy and revenge. The love between Meggie and Ralph made Mary extremely envious that she even wanted to kill Ralph for his not wanting her. Finally, Mary came up with an idea. She left two wills, one to her lawyer and the other to Ralph. According the two wills, all her wealth would be left to her brother or Ralph. Mary left a letter to Ralph, letting him make a decision and choose between his love for Meggie and the money.

In her love for Ralph, Mary found a way of action and self-expression, and her scheme of putting Ralph into a dilemma proved to be effective. However instead of bring her satisfaction and happiness, her false expression of female consciousness ended her life in envy and misery.

2.2.2 Mary Carson’s Fight against the Fate

Mary was from a very common family of Ireland. When she was a young girl, she was aware of the social reality she faced: A woman who wants to select a good husband must have enough background or breeding in Ireland. This was accepted by most women of that age. But Mary tried to break this fetter. She belie ved that “the greater the scope for action, the greater the potential for fulfillment”. This principle was proved to be true in her marriage and career as she successfully married a rich man and possessed her career through activities. In order to acquire the equal position as men, Mary neither showed any mercy to people nor showed any weakness of her. Her success was at the cost of sacrificing her emotion of the individual as a woman. Although she becomes the richest woman in Australia, she was unhappy. She paid the price for what she had got: living lonely for the rest of her life.

2.3 Meggie— brave, persistent, stubborn

Meggie is the second female of Cleary and the core of the story. In describing this character, the author uses the third-person point o f view, In Ralph’s eyes, “Meggie is the sweetest, the most adorable little girl he had ever seen; hair of a color which defied description, not red and not gold, a perfect fusion of both…” (P88, 3). In the story, since her childhood, Meggie appears to be p ersistent and vulnerable. Meggie doesn’t have a happy childhood and has suffered countless miseries in the growth. She was obedient to that male-centered society and never thought of resistance of the mode of life and her fate. Just as Ralph had ever said, she was not a rebel. All her life she would obey, move within the boundaries of her female fate.” On the first day she goes to school, she is caned by Sister Agatha, but she chooses to endure all those punishments. When her mother gave birth to more babies she gave up schooling to help her mother with the housework without any complaints.

In the early stage of Meggie’s life, it seemed that there was an absence of subjectivity of femaleness. But from a feminist perspective, we can still find some hints which indicate the existence of her female consciousness. One is her playing with the doll, a present she got at her fourth birthday. She played with the doll, talked to her and sang for her, by doing so, she finds a subjective affirmation of herself. Another one was her not yielding to the teacher’s power in the school. Through these activities, Meggie was in fact trying to identify her statues as a female. They were demonstrations of Meggie’s female consciousness.

2.3.1 Meggie’s forbidden love for Ralph

Meggie met Ralph when she was ten years old. This changed her life. A neglected girl for the first time gained attention and affection from outside her family. It was nn the platform of the Gillanbone railway station, Ralph falls in love with Meggie at the first sight. Meggie lived a peaceful life under Ralph’s protection and tender care. In her eyes, Ralph was someone she could depend on. When Hal died, he came. When she experienced her first menstruation and was afraid of dying of cancer, he came.

Mary Carso n’s birthday party was a transition point of Meggie’s feeling for Ralph. That year, Meggie was seventeen. She felt her love—the love a woman for a man—for Ralph, and she frankly expressed her love. However Ralph is a priest who cannot get married.

After Ralph accepts inheritance and leaves her. Meggie married Luke just because he looks like Ralph. In the love affairs with Ralph, Meggie’s subjectivity and desire as a woman were shown to the greatest extent, and she resist everything that prohibited her love with Ralph, including the Church. From time to time, she attracted Ralph to come close to her. When her father and brother died, when she gave birth to luck’s daughter, when she went to Matlock Island on her own, he was always beside her. Finally, on Matlock Island, Ralph became her man.

2.3.2 Meggie’s resistance to Catholism and fate

Though God show no sympathy to Meggie, compared with her mother, when facing love, she is more bravely. When Father Ralph leaves her the first time, she doesn’t complain or t hink to struggle with her fate, and she chooses to marry Luke, a man looks like Ralph. After marriage, during the days in Mueller, Meggie has the opportunity to read books which has greatly changed

her life attitudes and helps her to grow up. When Ralph leaving her again after the birth of Justine, she begins to understand it is the Church and God that prevent her from having Ralph. She begins to hate the church, because it treats her like a sin if she loves Ralph. But she hasn’t given up, or yield to destiny. Since then, Meggie grows up from a little girl to a real woman who fights against God for love. As a result, she has a son with Ralph. She gets something that God can never have. As she said, “...I’ve got the part of him which carries on from generatio n to generation. Through me he’ll continue to live…And that son will have sons, and they will have sons …I’ll beat God yet. I’ve loved Ralph since I was ten years old, and I suppose I’ll be love him if I live to be a hundred” (P336, 12). However, when Dane grows up, he decided to become a priest, Meggie feels so desperately. What’s more, after Dane’s death by drowning, Meggie has yielded to destiny. She begins to feel hopeless about her love and fate. She is aware of that there was never a woman born who could beat God. What she stole she has to give back.

So, Meggie is a resolute woman, just like a thorn birds, when the sharp thorn penetrates into the breast, she still songs while bearing huge pain. Her love experience is a process of self-reflection, which is from helplessness to suffering and from examining herself painfully to betraying her husband. At the same time, she has struggled bravely towards the religion. In the end, she finally made Ralph understand a truth that their choice leads to their bitterness in the whole life.

2.4 Justin— rebellious, independent, passionate

Justine, the third generation of these women, is full of rebellious since she was born. When she is a little girl, she is quite different from other children. She is persistent and never wants to be hugged or kissed, even be made to laugh. “…Justine didn’t seem to need a mother; since she was convinced she was right about everything …” (P409, 6). She has her own way of doing things and ways of thinking. She is always trying to be the master of herself. She wants to be actress. “Where else can I scream and yell and howl but on the stage? I’m not allowed to do any of those here, or at school, or any where! I like screaming and yelling and howling…” (P500, 9).In a word, this profession can give her a chance to display her personality fully. So she persuaded her mother to agree because she had already passed the entrance examination. In order to realize her dream, she left her family. To a girl, virginity is very important especially in that age, but she loses her virginity to a man only for the simple reason that she need to experience a variety of emotional experiences in order to be a good actress. From the above perspective, “She is actually an inborn anti-traditional woman.” She is so b rave that nothing can hold her back.

2.4.1 Justine’s harmonious love with Rainer

Justine was successful in career. She becomes a famous actress in Europe, but to love and marriage, she held an attitude of doubt and resistance. She doesn’t want to belong t o anyone, she only belongs to herself. However, not a girl can avoid love .When Justine met Rainer-a Politician. She attracted by him and felt happy with him. At the beginning, she regards him as her close friend, and with goes on, when she realized that Rainer has loved her and herself has fell in love with him gradually, she felt frighten more than joyful and even regarded this as “the lose the

dearest friend. Betrayal” her pride forces her not to change their friendship into love. She wants his love, at the same time; she fears that she will lose her love finally.

When facing love, Justine is not a brave girl, but thanks for Rainer who gives enough patience and respect to Justine. He told her: “Justine, this is not something to play with, nor someone to play with. There’s plenty of time. You have every reason to know I can be patient.” After Dane’s death, she would sacrifice her happiness and career to compensate her love to the gone Dane, and wrote a letter to Rainer to tell him that between marriage and nothing, she has elected nothing. Rainer didn’t give up her, instead, he flew to Drogheda and had a serious talk with her mother—Meggie. He said: “I came to see you because Justine needs to take up the threads of her life again—not a Drogheda” (P646, 11). He knows Justine more than Justine herself. What’s more, he knows what Justine wants and he can give the thing, the life she wants. The most important thing is that he loves Justine and has enough patience to wait for her.

However, in the depth of her heart, she is crying for love. When she meets Rainer whom she loves, at the same time, she doesn’t have the courage to put her whole heart on that man. And Dane’s death gives her a heavy blow, she treats Dane’s death as her own fault and even loses her life confidence, her sadness even exceeds her mother.

3. The causes of their different fate

The Thorn Birds focuses on the life experience of the four Cleary women and the attitude they face life. In the story, we can find that the four women resist to principles of the patriarchal society and show their female consciousness in different ways. The four female images are full of era atmosphere.

3.1 The causes of Mary Carson, Fiona and Meggie’s tragic fate

In the early stage of Australian patriarchal society, people are very traditional. The natural environment of Australia was very hard. It was the men who fought against the rough environment outside home. Women were left in the house to do the housework. Men were the head of the family and they wanted their women to be tender and obedient. They are defined as “angels of the house” and are expected to do the domestic work and meet the need of the 19th century. As a result, women’s interests are subordinated to the interests of men. They do not have the rights and privileges that men own. Women cannot find a position in the society. Their future are decided by men, especially their marriage. They are “property” of men.

This situation changed in the end of 19th century when the first wave of Women’s Liberation M ovement took place in the western countries. Women’s self-consciousness was awakened and gradually developed. As a result, growing up in the end of the 19th century, Mary Carson and Fiona are educated. They have self –consciousness. Thus Mary Carson strives for an equal position in her marriage and career all her life. Fiona and Meggie conceive the idea to pursue true love all their life. However, at that time, Australia was a new country with only about 120 years of history. In this young country, as most of its settlers came from the Great Britain, its political system and its standards of morality were derived from the British model.

The military, industry, technology, political office and finance-in short, every branch of power in the scope of the society is entirely in the male hands. What's more the religion, one of the most influential powers of the society determines the subordinate status of women in Christianity, for only men are the representative of God. Without independent economic source and equal social status, women can never get freedom. Finally suppressed by the conventional social customs, Mary Carson, Fiona and Meggie’s fighting for true love and happy marriage are doomed to fail.

3.2 The reasons of Justine’s success in resisting fate

Ju stine, the third generation in the 1930’s and 1940’s, is a successful example. After the Second World War, the world entered a new ear. Women in the western countries including Australia began to realize their equal rights in politics, economy and education. They appeal for the elimination of the inequality in these fields. Thereupon, the second wave of the Women’s Right Movement soon spread in the western countries. Women called for more education. Even housewives went out of their homes to continue a higher education. The higher levels of education for women increased the risk of doubts for marriage and marriage breakdown. Justine breaks the barrier between women and society. Justine chooses her career on her own will and lives an independent life by finding her position outside the family. She finds her true love and possesses an equal position in her marriage. In this generation, the female consciousness gradually gets mature. Justine’s success in marriage and career gives people hope and confidence and it encourages all the women under the oppression of the patriarchal society to rise for equal rights and self-fulfillment. Justine’s experience indicates that only when a woman actively participates in expensive social activities and has an independent economic position and a define self-consciousness can she finally obtain an independent social position and real freedom and equality.

4. Conclusion

There is a Greek saying that it’s a sin against the gods to love something beyond all reason. When someone loves so, the gods becomes jealous, and strike the object down in the very fullness of its flower, and make her suffer all the time. It’s profane to love too much, but women always choose to set their whole mind and heart on love. So they are always injured severely. As a result, the love story of women in Clearys family ended with tragedy except that of Justine whose independent personality keeps her holding a rational love view in love journey. The result of Justine’s romantic love reveals: In the new times, as long as a woman keeps the independence of economy and dignity, realizes themselves in more space except family, she can get the equal respectable love and social status.

To sum up,everyone has a thorn in his breast. If the thorn in one’s thorn is wort h pursuing, you should persist all the way and make every effort to be the master of your own fate. Try to be active and confident in the face of misery and doomed destiny and life will reward you. After being a thorn bird in your own life and singing your sweet songs to the top of your voice, you will never be defeated by fate.

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