Extreme Roles
In every country, city, town and neighborhood in the world, there are stereotypes. We all live in a classified area where you can be regarded as rich, poor or middle class. Within those three types there becomes sub-categories, where ethnicity , gender and sexuality also become a part of the environment. The list goes on and on. In David H. Hwang's M. Butterfly, the roles of men and women in the Eastern and Western society are extremely limited in that men and women are both expected to act there part. Being a women in Eastern society, means basically, to do whatever possible to please your man. Song, although we come to find is actually a man, played the part of the perfect women. " Gallimard: I have a vision. Of, the Orient. That, deep within its almond eyes, there are still women. Women willing to sacrifice themselves for the love of a man. Even a man whose love is completely without worth."(Act three, scene three, pg.92). Song knew from experience that men of the Western world loved submissive women who would do anything to please the man they were with. Femininity is displayed as weak and passive. In order to find a man, a women had to do anything, even accept the fact that there husband
In doing so, he never had to worry about not being the typical man. I don't believe that Gallimard had this point of view before he moved to the Orient. Gallimard fell in love with a man. In the Orient and the Western world as well, masculinity wasn't defined by hard work and a having and striving toward a perfect marriage and family life, it was defined by sex. It was socially acceptable to be intentionally blind to what your husband was doing. Every character in this play had to deal with the role that they had to play in society depending on there gender. His friend Marc, on the other hand, saw women simply as toys to be played with , then tossed aside.
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