Human rights and Humanism in Win Lyovarin’s True Blue

Thailand, formerly an absolute monarchy, was polarized due to the conflicts between the royal advocates who demanded a return to the existing system and those who advocated the need for a democratic system during the 1932 Constitutional Revolution and the 1933 Boworadet Rebellion. Win Lyovarin’s novel True Blue portrays the reality of the civil wars in Thailand as well as the political prisoners who were defeated during the turbulent period from 1933 to 1944. This study aims to find out the situation in Thailand where ideological conflicts had escalated into a civil war and human rights and humanism in the novel. This fictional work is about high-born royalty and intellectuals, who have been incarcerated as political prisoners, and contains ideas relating to their actions of resistance. The ideological conflicts that arose from the hopes of creating a better social system, the problems of human rights, the conditions and driving forces of human life, and the desire for humanism are sorely needed even today.