M Butterfly
The 1990s play, M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang, features a French man named Gallimard, who works in the ambassador’s office in China who falls in love with a beautiful Chinese singer. ... In the play, M. Butterfly, the classical tragic hero is Gallimard. Gallimard has a wild fantasy of living the opera of Madame Butterfly throughout his life. ... Through the fact that Gallimard tries to live his life by the opera Madame Butterfly, he attempts to pursue the role of the white sailor, dominant, self-absorbed and controlling. By the end of the play Gallimard realizes that under his dominance that he was the true butterfly, not Song. ... His life has been lost, but now he will always be with his butterfly.