M Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

Write a four-to-five-page essay on one of the following topics.  Make sure you have an arguable thesis that outlines the goal of your essay and that lends itself to an original reading of the literature.  To support your ideas, provide specific evidence from the play.  Use MLA citation format and include a works cited page.   *Note:  You will be required to include 3-4 total quotations from one secondary source from a selection I will provide, but I do not want you to add in the secondary texts until after your own ideas and insights about the primary text are secure and clear.    1.  In David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, Rene Gallimard learns the difference between fantasy and reality but consciously chooses fantasy and death in the manner of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.  Thus, Hwang flip-flops who the tragic character is, such that Gallimard, who thinks of himself as the macho Pinkerton, is the one abandoned and disgraced in the end.  Such gender inversions take place throughout the play.  Choose at least two examples of the subjectivity or mutability of gender and analyze its implications in the world of the play. Secondary source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/37510043_The_Prison_of_Fantasy_in_David_Henry_Hwang%27s_MButterfly