Construction and Human Development from Male Homosexual Love Narrative

Abstract

This research has two objectives: 1) to analyze the content, concepts, and language techniques employed in narratives of male homosexual love within television dramas, 2) to analyze the human development from male homosexual love narrative from television dramas. The analyzed data was gathered from three dramas available on the LineTV.me website, namely 'Deuan Kiew Deuan,' 'Run Phi,' and 'Phi Wak Tua Rai Kap Nai Pii Neung,' all of which were originally televised. This is the qualitative research analyzing content, with structural interview from the 10 audience who have watched all 3 dramas. The research employs narrative theory, structural analysis, and theories of human development. The results are presented through descriptive analysis with pictures and tables

          The results found that male homosexual love narrative used the content construction of common characteristics of the 3 dramas as; having a crush on senior, love triangle, jealousy, sulking and reconciling, and concealing one's love. The different characteristics are the use of violence and disapproval from family and society. These characteristics are not different from the content of heterosexual love except the content of approval of homosexual love from family and society. Conceptually, the narratives reveal the notion of gender nonattachment, illustrating that love in male homosexuality is not different from that in heterosexuality. Furthermore, the approval of such relationships by family and society is depicted as a source of happiness.

          The analysis of verbal language within the narratives such as 'aeb chop' (having a crush on someone), 'hueng' (being jealous), and 'kho tot' (being sorry), are chosen to align with the narrative content. The use of 'Ku/Mueng' (I/you) by the main male characters when addressing each other serves to differentiate them from gay or transgender characters found in other narratives. Non-verbal language elements, including haptics such as kissing, hugging, and hand-holding, highlight the narrative's effort to portray the similarities between homosexual and heterosexual love. Additionally, objects in the narrative, like a piece of gear, a symbol of the faculty of engineering, and a wristband exchanged between the main characters, signify their love and relationship, further solidifying their identities within the context of the homosexual love narrative.

          Regarding human development, the analysis, critique, and interpretation of these narratives, combined with interviews related to the 3 dramas, suggested that the “text” reacting with readers/audience with critical thinking and criticism to intellectually strengthen the knowledge and to knowingly understand the constructed or indirectly conveyed “text” such as male homosexual love is as natural as heterosexual love, the right to be and to choose as one’s satisfaction, and the value and equality of human. This critical thinking and criticism is the important tool to support the characteristics of mankind in this 21st century in the sense of seeing through the ‘text’ of narratives.