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M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
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M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
Play's characters, plot and themes, focusing on the influence of Puccini's opera [Madame Butterfly].
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
1 source |
1999
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" In the play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, the action derives from a true story about a French diplomat who had a long-term affair with a Chinese singer, presumably thinking this was a woman when in fact it was a man. The story was also a spy story as the "woman" acquires secrets from her diplomat-lover for her government. The title of the play intentionally evokes images both of Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly and what in French would be seen as "Monsieur" Butterfly. The opera embodies a certain Western attitude toward Asian women and toward Asians in general, and Hwang's play uses those ideas as something against which to balance his own drama as he deconstructs certain ideas from the opera and creates a different sense of operatic reality. Within this operatic universe, Gallimard's complacent Western stereotyping of Asians.."More papers on M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang:
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M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-M-Butterfly-by-David-Henry-Hwang/13519
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"M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-M-Butterfly-by-David-Henry-Hwang/13519>
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