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The Thorn Birds的读后感10篇

  《The Thorn Birds》是一本由Colleen McCullough著作,Virago Press Ltd出版的Paperback图书,本书定价:GBP 9.99,页数:592,文章吧小编精心整理的一些读者的读后感,希望对大家能有帮助。

  《The Thorn Birds》读后感(一):After reading the Thorn birds

  efore telling you the whole story and what the story gave me,I’d like to quote the legend about the The Thorn bird:

  There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches,it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song,existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain…. Or so says the legend.

  As the legend, this story is about a family, or accurately, in my view, about 3 generations, 3 women- Fee, Meggie and Justine,and they are the view of a thorn bird. It’s start from 1915, New Zealand,Meggie is a little 4 years old girl, in the big poor family, the only one who cared her, love her is Frank, and Meggie love him also, the big brother who is the guardian angel, but only for her, the little beautiful girl with red hair. It’s a poor family, the father Paddy is a farm labourer, the mother Fee, is a beautiful woman while never express any feelings, nor her happiness or pain,she just do the house work day after day, night after night~ the only one she cares, is her son- Frank, in some point, she loves Frank more than the rest of the children. At first, I have no clue about this, while as the story unfolds,she pours all her love to Frank just cause she loved the Father who is not Paddy, her current husband. And maybe it’s a destiny, Meggie goes to the same road as her mother, their difference is just Fee actually loved Paddy and Paddy loved Fee very much, even it’s been seen after Paddy died, but at least, she knows, she loved the man, and regretting the days and years ignoring him, accurately,it’s a life long, it’s a thorn branch and she choose to impale herself into it.But she is not a bird, and the thorn cannot kill her at once, so she sing on the thorn branch. So does Meggie, when the family moved to Drogheda, it’s destined Meggie will be another thorn bird. Ralph, the only man Meggie loved in her life, but he is a priest, he loved her, at the beginning as a priest, then as a man, when Meggie was abandoned by her loved Ralph and married Luke o’Neil,when something belonged to you finally disappear and become others, you’ll know how precious they are and how important they meant to you. At this moment,Ralph finally know, he love her, as a man. And as a man, he felt happiness that he never thought exist, but now, he is a Cardinal now, no back road for him. And to Meggie?She stole a child from her loved man, from Ralph, the only man she loved when she was a little girl. Fortunately Luke does not love her at all, he is just a miser, so when Meggie went back to Drogheda with the girl-Justine who is not the expected child with Luke, and the precious baby with Ralph, no one disturb her or stand in her way, it’s rarely peace. Sorry for the mess, I’m really not a good storyteller~ Dane was born, a beautiful little boy whose father is Ralph, taken care of by his older sister Justine whose father is Luke.Apparently, Meggie pour all her love to Dane, all her love to Ralph, and just give Justine a indifference, but like it exist in her blood, she never expressed she want to be loved or needed, only with her little brother , she learn to laugh, talk~ and always until Dane died. He is the only one she allowed to step into her heart. If we say Fee and Meggie impale themselves to the thorn tree, while Justine, is born on the thorn tree, born in pain, so she refused to love and accept love. Until she finally lost Dane, and Rain in some point awake her feelings, she chooses to pull out the thorn from her body,and embrace the happiness~

  As to me, Meggie went to her mother’s road, loved a shouldn’t love of a person, and keep the love for a whole life, never turn the page to start a new life even she had the chance. I’m not blaming her or criticize her, I respect her love to Ralph, it’s deep and moving, I hope I can love someone so deep in heart, and have the special feeling when the person look into you, that must be the happiest thing in life~ While Justine, her daughter, did not like her mother, she is such a brave girl I have to say. She wants to be an actress and she became a famous actress, she said she wants different lives, while in the reality, you just live once, you cannot scream,you cannot die, you cannot be someone’s mistress whilist other’s wife, so to be an actor, you can live different lives, it is exciting. In this point, I cannot agree more, who donnot want a colorful life with unknown? But in another point,she chooses this just because of her deeply pain, she had to sing, to relieve the pain……while she’ll be happy for her life, cause Rain is the one who can relieve her pain and let is disappear. I remember his words ”Words of love mean nothing, I have not spoken my love, I’ve lived it”.

  I wept, for the love Ralph and Meggie, for poor Frank, for Paddy, for their sing…If you’ve read this story, do you remember a paragraph when Ralph finally find the thing that remedy his hurt, his loneliness, it’sonly a name- Meggie, Meggie,Meggie….

  At last, since my superficial understanding, I’dlike to quote the last paragraph of the book to remember and pay my respect to this great story:

  The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law,it’s driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and dies inging. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it.Still we do it.

  《The Thorn Birds》读后感(二):给记忆中的玫瑰

  一直喜欢凄美的爱情故事,好像少了一份沉重就少了一分震撼。读过的故事里,荆棘鸟算是最忧伤浪漫的了。

  故事的感情轮廓并不少见,热衷权利的教士和美丽的少女相爱,他选择了权利造成了两个人痛苦波折的一生。但是因为他是她的拉尔夫,她是他的梅吉,故事才那么独特。

  他们之间的感情萌发地那么纯净,那么自然,像是一枝玫瑰生长在被人认为不该出现的地方。拉尔夫曾经和梅吉说她是他的玫瑰,在漫长的岁月里这句话给了梅吉多大的支撑,但是一次次的分离之后她对他说忘了那朵玫瑰吧,我已经不是你的玫瑰了。即使如此,他们的生命始终难以分开。

  我最喜欢读的是梅吉的内心,生长在一个很多兄弟的家庭,作为家中唯一一个女孩,但始终被忽略,很小就学会隐忍,学会照顾别人,学会守护,见到二十几岁的天神一样的拉尔夫出现时,十岁的她很快发现拉尔夫是不一样的,他关注他爱护他。所以他们之间的感情在岁月中是绵长地生长的。

  十几岁的梅吉,含蓄地向拉尔夫表达自己的心意时,是被拒绝的开始,于是她把爱藏起来。二十几岁的梅吉,嫁给了一个长得酷似拉尔夫的人,但依然没有得到自己想要的——丈夫、孩子、家。婚姻不如意的梅吉在孕育第一个生命的九死一生之后,把自己沉浸在书里,想知道为什么自己想要的却得不到。她开始想与命运抗争。后来终于得到了自己想要的,拉尔夫的孩子。之后的二十几年她是幸福的,因为即使拉尔夫的爱被上帝夺走,她还有他们的孩子。在这个唯一的希望又被毁灭之后,在拉尔夫的忏悔之后,她平静了,爱过、被爱过、抗争过,对孩子倾注过全部的爱,别忘了,她仍然具有从小就孕育出的那份隐忍。

  热衷权利的男人通常是可怖的,可是拉尔夫有些不一样。如果我是梅吉,也会那样爱他吧。在梅吉的成长过程中,拉尔夫是不可替代的,他就像是澳大利亚肥沃的土壤,是她焕发爱和美丽的源泉。拉尔夫知道梅吉是自己塑造的,梅吉小时候他可以在道德上心安理得的照顾她爱她,在她成长的过程中他害怕,他知道自己会爱上她,而动摇到上帝的位置。到临死前,他终于承认自己爱梅吉胜过上帝。

  荆棘鸟,传说一生都在寻找,寻找一根很长的刺,然后将它插入自己的胸膛,在临死前用最动听的声音歌唱。

  以前一直不明白这个传说和小说有什么关系,后来渐渐懂得。

  你用生命去寻找自己觉得最美的东西,你知道它会让你痛苦,但是仍然穷尽一生去寻找,然后临死前在这痛苦中满足地歌唱。

  会因为痛苦而减少对它的爱吗,不会。

  梅吉也是荆棘鸟,一生在寻找自己的爱,即使拉尔夫让她痛苦,但她仍选择拥抱这种宿命。

  《The Thorn Birds》读后感(三):《他们》----------“其实我最…Ralph de Bricassart,但我不要爱他!”

  我不信教,但也知道宗教是有力量的。于我,Priest(Father)分两种,一种是《巴黎圣母院》里的Claude Frollo 副主教,近似苛刻的教条及禁欲背后,他的心和他身上的黑袍一样,阴暗扭曲。Esmeralda的存在,她的美,野花般肆无忌惮开放又低到尘土里,还就活生生的开在他的眼前,这让他所谓的信仰以及欲望的克制瞬间崩溃,她是他的毒药,他的恶因为想占有而急剧膨胀。她本不高贵,她应当如他所求,可偏偏她是不低头的性子,得不到,他便嫁祸她、折磨她、看万千人唾弃她、甚至毁灭她。

  另外一种便是近期我看了无数遍的《荆棘鸟》,The Thorn Birds中的这个Ralph de Bricassart神父了,无论是书中的他,还是83年Richard Chamberlain饰演的他(当年艾美最佳男主角),拉尔夫都有完美的面部轮廓、修长灵活的身姿,以及受过良好教育的高贵的谈吐;一袭束腰素色神父长袍,洁白的罗马领,比便装更能映衬出他的风采,他的出场是用来崇拜的,无论男人和女人(花痴!)。而Meggie,生长在穷苦家庭的小小花蕾,从含苞到绽放,她不仅仅是他的小小萝莉,他的rose,更是他的神性压制不住的人性的部分。为了追逐自己的野心,他是要克制的,他是要放弃他的,但是这放弃的路上总有百折千回,他忍不住回头,和她有了短暂的人(任性)的时光,却终选择割舍奔回梵蒂冈一路成为红衣大主教,离开前,他说,对自己最大的惩罚便是再也不能肯定自己爱上帝甚于爱她……

  Ralph,对女人来说,他的存在是让你不幸的。因为他,你只能努力把自己变得更好、努力快快长大去配得上他,而凡俗的男人有了他的衬托便永不能再入眼入心;因为他,你明知他要他的野心你明知你是他注定要牺牲的却偏偏放不下,他是你的最初,却也成了永远的最终!就算这样,你还是会想着从他那里再要多一点点温暖;而又因为有了这一点点从他的上帝那儿偷来的相守,你的心你的日子便只能孤单着伴着回忆老去,这是执着还是执念,这是缘还是孽呢!可是,从上帝那偷来的是注定要还回去的,这就是Meggie的悲哀,是爱这种男人的女人的悲哀!

  这个男人,他是小Meggie的守护神,他也曾一遍遍说他爱她但是更爱上帝,他要她放弃男女的爱,他也一次次选择了离开,而她也不得不选择了另外一个自己不爱但是和他一样有野心有几分相似的男人卢克。这种挣扎象是永远不会结束,她并没有在短暂的婚姻里找到爱和心安,在她痛苦的独自生下卢克的女儿时,是Ralph,赶到了她身边,握着她的手,却还是因为她要他面对和承认这份爱情而瞠目结舌的离开;那一段,他是离不开她的,他渴望暂时忘却对主的誓言,他渴望她,于是,才有了他偷偷脱下主教的神袍,跑到了小岛上找他的玫瑰。在和她有了肌肤之亲后,还是要走,而她,Meggie,只能看着他走,眼睁睁的看着他回到梵蒂冈,回到他的神的脚下;她选择回到家乡,悄悄的生下了他的儿子,直至多年后,他在终于知道死于溺水的门生是自己亲生儿子后心碎而死,死在了她的怀里,他的心碎,是对神最后的背叛吗,唏嘘啊!

  还有几个这样的男人,虽不如上两位经典,但这里可以简单说几句。

  《简爱》中的missionary圣约翰,他只是普普通通的传教士,他的出场虽是收留无家可归的Jean,但他的情感他的理智都是安静而有距离的。他对Jane,没有深爱,而只是需要并相信她会是一个合适的传教士的妻子。还记得书中对他的一句描述:大理石般(冰冷)的嗓音。

  《红字》The Scarlet Letter中的牧师Reverend Dimmesdale 丁梅斯代尔,他对宗教有着狂热,他也是小镇上的神,教众眼中圣洁的奇迹,他最珍爱的便是自己教士的身份,虽然他的血肉之躯仍然会偷偷向爱慕和欲望投降。他看着爱他的女子Prynne,一次次被羞辱,一次次被逼问孩子的父亲是谁,永远带着那个表示耻辱的A字;他看着她带着他的女儿Pearl辛苦挣扎的活着,看着她扛着,他因为自己不能、不敢、不肯站到她的身边而在心里被良知折磨;勇敢的Prynne不要她的神坠落,而丁梅斯代尔,他是真的觉得自己犯了罪,却不是对她,更多的是对他为之狂热的神!他苦修,他甚至一次次鞭打自己,为自己对神的背叛、为自己人的欲望而惩罚自己;在无人的夜晚,他也会走到她受罚的刑台前;他最后在自己胸膛刻下了“A”,他的终点是被羞耻和折磨早早耗掉了一切!

  把这些个属于另一个世界的男人放到一起,不仅仅是因为他们有着共同的身份-神职人员,更是因为这些书,都很打动我。巴黎圣母院的年代,是18几几年的法国,中世纪的宗教本就多了黑暗腐朽的色彩;而荆棘鸟的舞台,是19几几年的澳大利亚,是在那片无垠的大陆上,才有了这种波澜壮阔的爱与抉择;简爱是发生在19世纪的英格兰,那个社会,阶层划分是不可逾越的;红字呢,又是发生在17世纪清教禁锢的北美大陆,人们更倾向于宗教狂热和欲望的克制,这些不同的时空舞台,对这些男主角来说,就是他们饱满人物形象的背景色。这一切,都是欲望和对神的承诺的搏斗,这些人,除了Claude副主教是彻底罪恶的,剩下的都是人性和神性的斗争!可是,我不懂,当你全心信仰一个神的时候,为什么只有舍弃了人的情感,人的欲望才能更好的侍奉你的主呢,就像Meggie 问Ralph的,为什么你的那个上帝的天堂,没有对女人的爱呢?

  在休斯敦的日子,周末要去教堂和友好家庭一起做礼拜。我是很爱教堂那种地方的,不用说那些宏伟的精致的建筑,就是路边转角处小教堂,也有一种让人心安静下来的力量。我不信教,却会在每次听礼拜时,对牧师的布道而心里暗暗惊叹。难怪宗教能打动人,每一个台上侃侃而谈的牧师,都是一个绝好的演说家!磁性的嗓音,深入浅出的语言,到结合时事、情理并重对圣经的诠释,他们可以自如的把一切好的存在解释为神的奇迹,一切灾难或者不幸都是对信仰的挑战;当他们领着教众祈祷时,真的很有感染力,似乎这样,每个人便不再是孤单的个体,你是一个community中的一份子,有很多人和你在一起,你内心的力量,会因此而强大起来,至少在那种氛围中,在那一刻!

  哈哈,最后还是想说,其实我最…Ralph de Bricassart,但我不要爱他!

  《The Thorn Birds》读后感(四):What is love,what is happiness

  When I am watching The thorn birds, I keep wondering a question---- Is Maggie happy?

  Maggie has an unhappy childhood, she has been ignored by her mother since she was a little girl. Her mother only cares about her oldest brother Frank, so she has to burden the responsibility as a mother to take care of her youngest brother Hal. She also has to help her mother do a lot of housework.

  The only light of her dark childhood is Ralph. As she herself says: “From the first time I saw you, you smiled at me, you called my name, you touched me, and I know I will love you for the rest of my life.”

  It is no doubt that she loves him so much and so deeply. Although she knows clearly that they can’t be married, she still tries her best to do it. After Mary’s birthday party, Maggie confesses her love for him, but Ralph refuses her because of his duties as a priest and begs Maggie to find someone to love and marry. So depressed she is, she marries to Luke two years later, a man looks a little like Ralph.

  ut finally she left Luke and got a child with Ralph.

  ome people may say that Maggie is unfortunate and unhappy, for her dark childhood and her forbidden love with Ralph. She almost gets nothing till the end of her life. Happiness is always far away from her.

  ut I think, happiness is a different thing to different people, each man has a different understanding of happiness. To some people, money and power is happiness: to others, family being together is happiness. But to Maggie, I think, falling love with Ralph is her happiness.

  This kind of love cannot be judged by whether it is worth or not, if she would rather being depressed and sad to love a man.

  《The Thorn Birds》读后感(五):The Thorn Bird

  前几天,在找书柜找书的时候,发现了荆棘鸟,英文版。第一次知道这本书,是很小的时候,看正大综艺后的外国电影,印象很深,也很喜欢。那时小,对人物性格了解不多,只是觉得很好看,一直记着,看到了书,就买了,但是700页,一直没尝试去读。

  这几天有时间,又没有合适的小说,就读了。找回了小时的感觉,废寝忘食,出去时,要带着,很困了,也坚持着,想知道接着发生了什么,今天终于读完了。

  他们的爱-情爱,对上帝的爱让我震惊,让我不能呼吸。他们爱的执着,爱的刻骨铭心,爱的坚强,爱的纯粹,爱的唯一,而且在一起很幸福,很和谐,互相关心,疼爱。神父总是在MEGGIE需要的时候在她旁边,在她被亲人疏离的时候,在失去亲人的时候,在生孩子的时候。可是他对上帝的爱更狂热-对上帝,对野心的执着。

  我很欣赏作者对人物性格的刻画,细节的描写,心理活动的描写,事件的铺垫及叙述。这样说,太抽象了,具体说吧。

  RALPH和 MEGGIE 感情:

  两人为什么相爱?

  MEGGIE喜欢RALPH,很简单:她一直被忽视,没有女性朋友,关系亲密的FRANK也走了,父母也很疏远,她很需要关怀,理解,关注,是RALPH给她的,宠她,为她装饰房间,教它骑马,关心她的一举一动,RALPH陪着她经过人生中重要的成长阶段。而长大以后,更认识到RALPH的优秀,帅气,只能越陷越深吧。

  那具有野心,而又圆滑,冷静,自控力极强,缺乏感情的的RALPH为什么喜欢MEGGIE?他清楚知道要什么,而女色是他成功的大忌,他也拒绝了一切女性的引诱,为什么这么深爱着MEGGIE?因为他们是在MEGGIE10岁的时候,见面的。那是MEGGIE是个忧伤的孩子,她身上的某些气质打动了RALPH,他想关心他,照顾她,他觉得被需要,她只有10岁,他认为是安全的,但是埋下了种子,MEGGIE长大了,RALPH发现,对她的爱已经抹不去了。

  RALPH接受了MEGGIE阿姨的新的遗嘱,接受对所有财产的管理。我觉得是个好的安排,因为MEGGIE家不喜欢管理这么多财产,他们拥有自己喜欢的牧场,而RALPH一直也给予他们钱财上的支持,而RALPH得到了他教廷的注意,得到了施展才能的地方,实现了自己的愿望。

  如果RALPH不接受,难道他和MEGGIE就会幸福吗?不会。他们有钱了,RALPH不做牧师了,两人可以在一起了,这是MEGGIE想要的有个丈夫,生些孩子,一起平静幸福的生活。MEGGIE会幸福,但是家庭,钱财不是RALPH想要的,他要的是尊重,权力,别人对他能力的肯定...所以他不会幸福的。

  所以这就是书里强调的命运,也就是自己的性格,愿望决定自己的选择和命运,RALPH知道离开MEGGIE会痛苦,但是他还是会做同样的选择;Meggie知道ralph不会离开教廷,不会和她在一起,但是她的爱,她的骄傲和坚强让她愿意为Ralph生个孩子,自己养,独身下半辈子。

  而命运又夺去了她从上帝那儿偷的孩子,现实DANE也想成为牧师,然后为了救人,失去了生命。这就是我们中国的因果报应。

  在书里有一段,FEE和MEGGIE的对话。FEE知道DANE是RALPH的孩子,她认为MEGGIE和LUKE结婚时很聪明的。MEGGIE一直在牧场时等待,RALPH不会关注她,当MEGGIE结婚了,RALPH就会意识到失去了MEGGIE,就会意识到爱她多深,开始面对这个问题,MEGGIE是他心目中最重要的女人,开始寻找MEGGIE。

  他们在一起的时候,应该是MEGGIE最幸福的时间吧。对于RALPH,可能幸福和痛苦是参杂的,和自己最爱的女人一起,是幸福的,但这是对自己信仰,上帝的背叛,内心也应是痛苦的。而恰恰是现在,让他认识到最爱的还是上帝,应该是他的野心。他离开了。

  但是我不明白的是:如果他决定绝对的忠实上帝,为什么后来到牧场,见到MEGGIE,又再一起,而且也没有内疚感了?如果他可以接受这种两面的生活,为什么不经常来牧场,就只来这一次?

  如果RALPH很早就知道DANE是他的孩子的话,会不会更幸福?虽然他知道后,问自己,如果他早知道,会不会对DANE更好,他认为不会,但是我觉得会。因为,DANE在希腊遇难,MEGGIE他们找不到尸体。MEGGIE到罗马,需要RALPH的帮助。MEGGIE希望RALPH立即和她去希腊,可是RALPH说,他必须在罗马,不能随便离开。但是MEGGIE告诉他,DANE是他的孩子后,他立即坐私人飞机去了希腊。所以,他会更爱DANE,会做的更多,会更幸福吧?如果这样的话,MEGGIE是自私的,她也是在惩罚RALPH,以这种方式。可是他应该也会时时谴责自己吧?DANE的存在,时时刻刻提醒自己所犯的错。这可能就是他自己在回避不想承认DANE是自己的孩子吧,他亲近的人都看得出来,为什么他这么聪明的人,却从来不去考虑?

  这里许多的主人翁精神都是受折磨,有挣扎的,有改变,FEE,FRANK,JUSTINE,FEE的爱情和婚姻,JUSTINE的叛逆性格,和与RAINER的曲折爱情。我很喜欢这个作者,因为精神上的这种挣扎,性格上的不同,对人事的不同,很复杂,但是作者描述的很真切,也很有逻辑。

  他们虽然不在一起,但是深爱着,知道另一个人在一个地方,是种安心。痛苦的是,DANE和RALPH先后去世,我想MEGGIE心里的空和痛是别人很难体会的吧。MEGGIE是坚强的,那死应该不是恐惧的,而是种解脱吧。

  悲剧,让人记忆深刻,可是在现实生活中,还是追求喜剧,找到相伴一生的人比较幸福吧。

  电影版的RALPH也很符合角色。我在伦敦的时候,参加过朋友的教堂婚礼,主持的牧师真的很热情,很神圣,很亲切,很感染人,也很帅气,吸引人。所以这么吸引人的牧师不是只是书上或者电影才可看到的,现实生活中是有的。这个教的牧师是可结婚的,所以他和妻子一起工作。

  有机会要去梵蒂冈看看,看看那些红衣主教,或者教会的学院里的学生,是不是真有那种慈悲,宽容的神情。

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