Hwang's Work

M. Butterfly is a play that involves different aspects of cultural and race related topics, which if analyzed in depth, carry a set of similar points as Said’s ideological thinking of “Orientalisim”. Hwang controls his play through Gallimard , an important character that revives the shocking true that engages the play. Furthermore is of greater interest to analyze this piece as racist, it restates Said’s set of ideas; in which stereotypical assumption are taken to demean a certain race. In M. Butterfly we are encounter with stereotypical ideas that portray Asian females as submissive, and essentially of lower cast in relation to the male society. We can even relate this work with “Heart Of Darkness”, a piece of literature that demonstrated a similar perspective and correlated in the use of racist and demeaning ideas shown by the African’s slavery movement in the Congo.