题目（英文）The awakening of female consciousness in The Thom Birds
题目（中文） 论《荆棘鸟》 中女性意识的觉醒
Abstract
The Thorn Birds is the representative work of the famous Australian female writer Colleen McCullough. It has been widely acclaimed as "Gone with the wind" in Australia. This novel with the background of Drogheda ranch, take the love deviation of master and mistress as the main line, tells the people about the family history of three generations of Cleary family. This paper analyzes the life of three generations of women: Fiona, Meggie and Justine, showing the period from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century，the difficult awakening process of female self-consciousness in different stages of development with the development of women's rights movement. Deeply expounds the female under the patriarchal oppression, from the spontaneous resistance to the self-conscious resistance to struggle and thus changed the fate of women's rights advocate thinking.
Key words: The thorn birds; Colleen McCullough; Female’s consciousness; Awakening; Implied meaning
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1. Colin McCullough 2
1.2. The Thorn Birds 2
2 Female’s self-consciousness. 2
2.1 The Definition of Female Consciousness. 2
3 Female’s self-consciousness in the thorn birds. 3
3.1 Fiona, a confused fair lady 3
3.2 Meggie, a Vulnerable but Persistent women 3
3.3 Justine, a Renellious Modern Female. 4
4 The implied meaning of thorn birds 4
5 .Conclusion 9
References 7
