M. Butterfly
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All Themes Orientalism, Imperialism, and Cultural Conflict Femininity and Male Ego Memory, Imagination, and Self-Deception Love and Cruelty
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Characters
All Characters Rene Gallimard Song Liling Marc Manuel Toulon Comrade Chin
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M. Butterfly

by David Henry Hwang
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Introduction Intro
Plot Summary Plot
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  • Act 1, Scene 1
  • Act 1, Scene 2
  • Act 1, Scene 3
  • Act 1, Scene 4
  • Act 1, Scene 5
  • Act 1, Scene 6
  • Act 1, Scene 7
  • Act 1, Scene 8
  • Act 1, Scene 9
  • Act 1, Scene 10
  • Act 1, Scene 11
  • Act 1, Scene 12
  • Act 1, Scene 13
  • Act 2, Scene 1
  • Act 2, Scene 2
  • Act 2, Scene 3
  • Act 2, Scene 4
  • Act 2, Scene 5
  • Act 2, Scene 6
  • Act 2, Scene 7
  • Act 2, Scene 8
  • Act 2, Scene 9
  • Act 2, Scene 10
  • Act 2, Scene 11
  • Act 3, Scene 1
  • Act 3, Scene 2
  • Act 3, Scene 3
Themes
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  • Orientalism, Imperialism, and Cultural Conflict Theme Icon
    Orientalism, Imperialism, and Cultural Conflict
  • Femininity and Male Ego Theme Icon
    Femininity and Male Ego
  • Memory, Imagination, and Self-Deception Theme Icon
    Memory, Imagination, and Self-Deception
  • Love and Cruelty Theme Icon
    Love and Cruelty
Quotes
Characters
  • All Characters
  • Rene Gallimard
  • Song Liling
  • Marc
  • Manuel Toulon
  • Comrade Chin
Symbols
  • All Symbols
  • Madame Butterfly Symbol Icon
    Madame Butterfly
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Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini’s celebrated 1904 opera, tells the story of a disastrous marriage between a beautiful, vulnerable Japanese woman named Cio-Cio-San —also called Butterfly —and a callow American sailor named Benjamin Pinkerton. Madame… read analysis of Madame Butterfly

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