This story although long it is entertaining for it those type of stories that you can't help to get hooked on especially if its read out loud in class and it also carries a realistic background and ironic and humorous plot; kootles to David Henry Hwang for M.Butterfly play. This play is divided in three acts and it has seven characters, one of them is Rene Gallimard which is the protagonist and the antagonist is Song Liling believe it or not. This play takes place in a prison in Paris and it also presents thing from the past from 1966 to a near present (Beijing during 1960-1970). Gallimard loved the opera of Madame Butterfly (by Giacomo Puccini) the whole play is based on this famous opera. Rene Gallimard identifies himself as Pinkerton, a character of the opera M.Butterfly. This play begins in a prison in a Paris (1988) the protagonist, Gallimard speaks to us (the readers) and describes the cell and talk of how he has become a celebrity and how everyone knew who he was. Gallimard has a friend named Mark, and there are scenes in this play were they discuss and analyze oriental women, which they see as easy and cheap. Mark is always telling Gallimard how a man lives his life and how easy it is to be with as many oriental women as they want without ever having in mind their desires. There are scenes where Gallimard is demonstrated arrogant he had affairs without ever being ashamed nor should any remorse.
Gallimard was married to Helga to whom he was unfaithful with Song Liling. Unfortunately, Gallimard was charged by the French government with treason, apparently his companion Song Liling had been an agent for the Chinese government a perfect woman that turned out to be a man in all his mystery and had passed on political information that he had acquired. It is surprising because he spent twenty years of his life without ever noticing that She was a imposter a man disguised as a woman., but there were scenes where he was very shy and didn’t have the courage to speak to women and there were scenes that suggest in a way that he didn’t like having sex with women he wasn’t that satisfied although he says he was; that turned out to be although weird but ironic to the core. He wasn’t that happy or excited of having sex with a girl, that wasn’t taking the initiative of being with him. When he was with Song, it was different, he liked being with her, even though he never saw her naked (when they had sex, she always asked to turn the lights off) so the story it self has a lot of twist and turn but one can be ashore that they will shock you. This play of a play has open barrier that most play writer don't dear to make and make you the reader ask yourself what is the prize of ignorant love and can you handle that truth.
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