m buterfly

Hwang wants people to look at Eastern women in a different way. In M Butterfly, Hwang attacks the stereotype by showing that a white male can easily be dominated. One clear example is Rene Gallimard who falls deeply in love with Song and is dominated by Song.
             Rene Gallimard takes us back and forth in time from his youth till his death in a prison. This is a story of a man who falls deep into his fantasy love with the image of Asian women and is deceived at the end. As Rene says at the beginning of the play. .
             alone in this cell, I sit night after night, .
             watching our story play through my .
             head, always searching for a new ending,.
             one which redeems my honor, where.
             she returns at last to my arms. (1, 3) .
             Rene is in love with the "woman- of his dreams, and permits no reality to interfere. Rene is blinded by his white Western fantasies about the submissive Asian woman. Rene and Song stay with each other for twenty-year, they both get what they need from each other. Rene Gallimard, all his life has been searching for a woman, a perfect woman. He wants to be like Pinkerton, to love and to be loved by an Asian woman. He has never been loved by any woman because of his physical appearance. Rene carries on the relationship with Song because after a lifetime of rejection Rene finally meets a beautiful woman who is willing to submit to him.
             We, who are not handsome, nor brave, nor powerful,.
             yet somehow believe, like Pinkerton, that we .
             deserve a Butterfly. She arrives with all her.
             possessions in the folds of her sleeves, lay.
             them all out, for her man to do with as he pleases.
             (1, 5).
             Therefore, when he meets song upstage playing Butterfly he falls deep in love with the fantasy of the story, an Oriental woman sacrifice her life for the cruel white man. He wants to have control over Oriental woman, he wants Song to love him with all her soul no matter how cruelly he treats her. "What are you afraid of? Certainly not me, I hope.