Illustrate The Eastern Image Of Opera Madam Butterfly

Puccini's Madame Butterfly, describing how a submissive Oriental girl loves a cruel white man unconditionally but is abandoned and then commits suicide finally, without a doubt, reflect a trend of the understanding of the west about the eastern culture in a wrong or distorted way.The Westerners' projection of an ideal Oriental woman and reveals a sense of racial supremacy and imperialist mentality. Madame Butterfly, as a cultural product, tends to perpetuate the misconception it contains, thus making Madame Butterfly a stereotype for the Oriental woman.The strategy of masculining the West and feminizing the East inevitably involves the Western fantasy of a submissive and vulnerable Orient as feminine and reveals the desire of domination. By dominating the Oriental woman and feminizing the Oriental man the West gains certain superiority over the East.The article analyzes the musical of the opera《Madame Butterfly》and put the analysis in a wide scope. The East and the West should contact each other more and more, to live peacefully on the earth. They should know about the relationship with other nations and keep the variety of culture all over the world.