There are similarities and differences in Hwang’s M Butterfly and Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly. They are both expressing the ideas of racist stereotypes about Western men and Eastern women. Puccini’s opera is about the Japanese girl falling in love with Pinkerton of the U.S. Navy, who dominates and possesses a beautiful Asian woman. Her name is Cio-Cio-San, also known as Butterfly. Despite the fact that in M Butterfly Song merely plays the role of a passive oriental woman. 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. They are willing to die for their love. One of the differences is Hwang’s M Butterfly takes place in China, and Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly takes place in Japan. Hwang’s M Butterfly and Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly do have similar endings but the roles are reversed. In Madame Butterfl

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