"brokeback Mountain" Behind The Moral Dilemma,

Literary works on homosexual has appeared in ancient time as early as in antient Greece and Rome, while due to the position social ethics and religious doctrines hold, they have been receiving much censure and reproach. Even literary criticism would avoid focusing research on these materials. These facts keep literature on homosexual in the corner of being ignored. As a consequence, the culture of homosexuality, confusion and conflicts of homosexual in facing traditional moralities and how homosexual pursue peace in mind reflected in and shown by literature on this theme were of the inferior attention.With her short story Brokeback Mountain, contemporary American writer Edna Annie Proulx tells reader the deep affection, lasting from 1960s to 1980s, overwhelming but unconventional of two rough man from undeveloped and conservative countryside in the United States. Through perspectives of the time and age, natural surroundings, contemporary social ethics and culture and conflicts and changes inside the heroes, this thesis analyzes the unconventional affection between two men. It also studies how language characteristics and structure of the text contribute to expressing the meaning of the text and the author's intention in writing such a story. By the above means, the author's understanding on how affection between the same sex grows and lasts, her appreciation of the force in people's affection inside and her bemoaning and thinking on the group of homosexual confused and suffered in dangling between the pursue of happy life and the abidance of social conventions. Through intensive study of the three phases in the development of the plot, the thesis has its discussion and researches into social position and identity acknowledgement of homosexual in the world reigned by the voice of heterosexual as the most powerful stream and its analysis and criticism of wonder, hesitation, conflict and struggle experienced by homosexuals in a complex social relationship under the pressure of traditional culture when they are searching for balance between complying to social ethics and meeting their own need, and the writer hopes sincerely that more discussion could be spread on ethic principles and peace of mind that both homosexual and heterosexual have to face and want to satisfy.