[Abstract] This paper attempts to explore the novel The Thor(9)

5. Conclusion
Singing her own little song, Meggie convinces it’s the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. She just hopes her faith can bring her a significant and happy life; she just hopes that her voice for love can bring Ralph’s attention and respect. In order to get love, she would rather offer her life as the greatest sacrifice, and her elevated demeanor is matchless for other women. But she still fails, as other western women’s fate.
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 become 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. It’s been God’s punishment to women since Eve ate the forbidden fruit. God not only sent her forth from the Garden of Eden, but also keeps punishing her and her female descendants, having them choose love as their faith and suffer from it in every moment till their death. As long as they live, women can’t stop longing for love, searching for love, fighting for love, and waiting for love. However, it’s easy for men to ignore women’s indefatigable zeal for faith. What’s worse, men don’t have the inclination to understand women. They seem not to know that women are different, needing things they don’t need. Women are just one of men’s ribs, so how can a rib win the whole body? Therefore, women’s attempt is destined to failure, and their voice for love is always so faint that they often feel hopeless and helpless. But they still don’t want to give up their faith. They know they will pay great cost, but they never stop searching for their sharpest and longest thorn. As long as love lies, women will keep suffering. However, women’s faith for love brings them a wonderful and significant life, which will ring in the world forever. 

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