5/28/2023 0 Comments M butterfly play![]() ![]() Song then goes to France dressed as Butterfly and holding a child she claims belongs to Gallimard. Meanwhile, Song is punished for her affair with Gallimard, serving as a laborer for a few years. ![]() There, he tells his wife about Song and the two separate. When his professional aspirations are foiled, however, Gallimard is discharged and returns to France with his wife, Helga. Through Song's submissiveness, Gallimard establishes his masculine identity.Īs the affair progresses, Gallimard is promoted to vice-consul, and sets up an apartment with Song, his mistress. Song's performance is so convincing and she is so demure about showing her body, that Gallimard remains unaware of Song's true sex. ![]() Throughout their affair, Gallimard remains unaware that Song is actually a man playing the part of a woman, a spy for the Chinese Communist party, extracting information from him. Gallimard begins a relationship with Song, a relationship that mirrors the relationship in the opera between Pinkerton and Butterfly: the cruel white man and the submissive woman. Thus, he is surprised when he meets and falls in love with Chinese opera star, Song Liling, who he considers to be the embodiment of the perfect woman, a version of one of his favorite operatic characters, Madame Butterfly. He is mild mannered and considers himself to be a wimp and bad at seducing women. ![]() René Gallimard is a member of the French embassy in China. ![]()
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