Where there is Love, There May be Lie: The Myth of The Middle-class’s Love in the Short Stories "Love in Lie"

Abstract

          This academic article aims to study the myth of love that appears in the short story, “Love in Lie” by Jirat Prasertsap. The study employed a documentary research method with a focus on the concept of myth. Through descriptive analysis. The study found that love depicted in the short stories is often superficial and fickle due to characters' attempts to love without considering that the object of their illusion crafted affection might merely be an illusion crafted to resemble love. Moreover, the stories reveal the characters' struggle to challenge societal and cultural norms in order to express their own forms of love freely. The short stories also invite you to question myth of peeling back the surface of love to see the truth and the lies that have been crumpled together as one, assembling it to feel like a 'real' for something that may be 'lie' in the name of “Love.”