David Henry Hwang

M. Butterfly is an award winning play written by David Henry Hwang in 1988. In this play, a young French diplomat by the name of Rene Gallimard, falls in love with a man whom he believed to be a woman, by the name of Song Liling. This play is based off of a real couple who's real names are Bernard Boursicot and Shi Peipu. Rene Gallimard sees Song Liling, for the first time at an opera show. After they begin seeing each other, he gives her the nickname of “his butterfly”. From there, their love grows

act, with the view of Oriental as an effeminate female with delicacy and subservient. As Song explains “The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. (Act 3, Scene 1)” By creating a false image of Song’s gender precisely, Hwang brings another remarkable topic in this play, which is sexism. When Gallimard sees Song performing the dead scene from the opera Madama Butterfly, he cannot separate her role as a

The story “Trying To Find Chinatown” by David Henry Hwang explains how a couple of characters of the name Benjamin and Ronnie argue with one another about their race. Ronnie is Asian and Benjamin is Caucasian but he was adopted as an adolescent by Asian parents. In the search of Chinatown, Benjamin stumbles upon Ronnie as he was playing his violin on the side of the curb. Ronnie had his violin case open for strangers to drop money in, but he decides to fall to his knees when Benjamin confronts him

The construction of these systems by men show the chauvinistic ideals of masculinity from Western culture that are destructive to women, men, and other cultures as well such as between Eastern culture and the Western culture. M.Butterfly by David Henry Hwang shows the theme of gender with Orientalism, where europeans fetishize Asian cultures as passive, exotic, feminine, and its impact of misogynistic fetishization on men and women. With the main character Gallimard, it is shown he is heavily influenced

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau was very close author who wrote towards same points by criticizing the corrupted government because people were treated very badly and they were not given individual rights. They were good author who brought people together and made them understand about the system of the Transcendentalist movement in America. The governor and government itself was very poor to control the people and society due to corrupted leaders and government. Due to economic progress

does advocate civil disobedience, via refusal to follow certain laws or protesting, but in no way does he believe that one should rise up against the government with force to overcome injustice. Martin Luther King Jr. was greatly influenced by Henry David Thoreau and it is shown through their theories and ideas such as imprisonment. Both King and Thoreau spent nights in jail in order to protests a particular idea or belief, for Thoreau it was slavery, for King it was segregation. Mississippi Burning

America is a country where people come to be free from persecution and express their thoughts and opinions. This founding principle led American society to pull away from conformity and pushes for individuality. Many family TV shows and several media outlets propagate individuality as a source of pride and evidence of personal growth. In the American society, children are taught at a young age that individuality creates personality. However, as an individual grows, they are forced to choice sides

Elements of Transcendentalism In the book, “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless is an in-the-closet transcendentalist; all of his ethics match up with those of a transcendentalist, yet he never admits he is one. McCandless agrees with all of the components of transcendentalism and follows them unremittingly as soon as he graduates from college, and he lives by those components to a fault, which ultimately led to his death. Deliberate living, nonconformity, and simplicity are three cardinal

rationalism of many others during the same time period. The transcendentalist writer of the late 1700’s, author Henry David Thoreau, shares the same thoughts about nature, independence, and recreation as I do. The transcendentalists thought nature is something pure that can be fully appreciated if civilization is left behind. In Isabel Wilkerson’s, “The Warmth of Other Suns, written by Henry David Thoreau, looked at his short term lifestyle of simple living in natural surroundings with appreciation.

Transcendentalism can be observed throughout the text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and through the text textbook examples of Transcendentalism can be seen from the cast of characters and Huck himself and the situations/adventures that he gets himself into throughout his journey, a journey which enables him to develop his Transcendental ideals.. Transcendentalism is a vital part of The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By reading and studying the content of the Adventures of Huckleberry