Madama Butterfly

The opera Madame Butterfly written by Giacomo Puccini is a story about a young maiden from Japan who is in an arranged marriage to Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton a soldier in the U.S. Navy. Lieutenant Pinkerton sees the marriage as a business deal, purchasing a house and servants, as well as receiving the fair maiden Madame Butterfly as a wife. Yet, Madame Butterfly believes that Lieutenant Pinkerton is marrying her for love. Not long after their marriage, Lieutenant Pinkerton tells Madame Butterfly that he is leaving. He reassures her that he will return when the robins nest again. Madame Butterfly maintains faith in her husband and waits patiently for three long years. One day Sharpless, a friend of Pinkerton’s, arrives with a letter…

The play M Butterfly, by David Henry Hwang, is an extremely complex piece of literature and a fascinating dissection of the East versus West mentality as well the gender binary. Examining Gallimard’s behavior under these lenses leads to many insights to his motivations and provides reasoning for his rather strange actions. These ideas which permeate the play are all grounded in the fundamental concept of ideology and the interpellation of the “subject” by said ideologies. As well as Althusser’s…

David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, was first written in 1988 and his work was inspired and he was influenced by Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly and it is based on a true story. David Henry Hwang as a first generation Chinese American being born in California on August 11, 1975, the writer of the three-act play M. Butterfly was a son of Chinese immigrants, his father was from Shanghai and his mother was an ethnic Chinese from the Philippines. His father immigrated to Oregon during the…

The play M. Butterfly, was written by David Henry Hwang. To help the actors gain a complete understanding of the play, a resource packet with references to the people and events that the play is based on, information on the role of women in 1960s China, and information on the opera Madama Butterfly would be provided to them. The characters Rene Gallimard (Hwang, pg. 1672 line 1) and Song Liling (Hwang, pg. 1679 line 4) are based loosely off Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, respectively, and…

a concert of drums. My limbs move supplely, I feel my joints strong, I breathe the air deeply. The night lives, I live” (17). Nature is Paul’s connection to life, to his childhood, to what was before death. He remembers sitting by a stream as a child while he sits on sentry duty, he relates the butterflies on the battlefield to those he collected as a boy. It is not only Paul who holds onto his past life through nature. Detering, a farmer cries out for dying horses on the battlefield, cries out…

CHAPTER 4 PSO AND GA TECHNIQUE 4.1 Moth Flame Optimization In the proposed MFO algorithm, I assumed that the candidate solutions are moths and the problem’s variables are the position of moths in the space. Therefore, the moths can fly in 1-D, 2-D, 3-D, or hyper dimensional space with changing their position vectors. Since the MFO algorithm is a population-based algorithm. It should be noted here that moths and flames are both solutions. The difference between them is the way we treat and…

One of the most fascinating creatures to me as a child was the monarch butterfly. Not only for its eye-catching wings that match the autumn leaves, but how they are the only butterfly that migrates south for the winter, similar to birds. Every year, millions make their journey from North America to Mexico or California, although those individual butterflies won’t return. Monarch migration is one of mother nature’s greatest phenomena. They migrate for two reasons: they cannot withstand the harsh,…

more commonly known as the monarch butterfly. Every monarch butterfly is bright orange with white spots on it. To the left is a picture of a monarch butterfly. It is also shown in its natural habitat, any type of tropical forest. They need to live in a tropical forest because they need to be in a warm climate in order for them to survive. Furthermore, accordinging to BioKids, “Monarch butterflies are found in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, islands in the…

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY Butterflies, like many insects across the UK have undeniable importance to the ecosystem. Maintaining butterfly populations has become a priority across the globe as anthropogenic activities increase to threaten butterfly species. One such species under threat in the UK is the Duke of Burgundy. Decline in flagship species over recent years has led to a review of the biodiversity action plans and the importance they have across the globe. This POSTnote examines the risks of…

Name of Activity: Metamorphosis Resources: - The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Belk Library - Pipe cleaners, paper plates, popsicle sticks, and craft pom-poms – Hobby Lobby - Crayons, color pencils, and glue- Freedom Trail Objectives: My objective is to teach kids about metamorphosis by using the popular children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Then I’ll have them create either caterpillars using popsicle sticks and pom-poms or decorate butterfly wings using crayons and color pencils. Hook:…