Hwang does this in order to introduce a theory the Westerner also submits to love not just Asian people. In M Butterfly, the role switch, and it is Gallimard who kills himself. In Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly sacrifices herself for the love she has for Pinkerton. Hwang's M Butterfly and Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly do have similar endings but the roles are reversed. One of the differences is Hwang's M Butterfly takes place in China, and Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly takes place in Japan. Both of the characters, Rene Gallimard and Pinkerton fall in love, not only with a person, but also with a fantasy stereotype about Asian woman, the stereotyped view of Asian women as demure and submissive. Despite the fact that in M Butterfly Song merely plays the role of a passive oriental woman. Her name is Cio-Cio-San, also known as Butterfly. Navy, who dominates and possesses a beautiful Asian woman. Puccini's opera is about the Japanese girl falling in love with Pinkerton of the U.S. They are both expressing the ideas of racist stereotypes about Western men and Eastern women. There are similarities and differences in Hwang's M Butterfly and Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly. David Henry Hwang uses the idea to deconstructs the famous opera and retitle it M Butterfly. There are many stereotypes of the East by the West, of women by men in the opera. Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly view that the East is feminine dominates.
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