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Subject: Re: Final Paper Proposal

Author:
Prof Yun

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Date Posted: 22:31:47 04/30/01 Mon
In reply to: Michelle 's message, "Final Paper Proposal" on 16:30:20 04/29/01 Sun

Let me push you on this. Can you explain your view of the mother in your scene? Song plays on a social, racial, and sexual STEREOTYPE to get what he wants. In this case, it's the Butterfly stereotype. However, I need to hear what you are thinking regarding the mother. She attempts to show that ">they can still be a family by showing her how they >were one in the past." This is muddy. So are you saying she is using the stereotype of... (what). This needs to be clarified.

>I wish to discuss, for my final paper, the ways in
>which women play into their designated roles, in order
>to get what they desire. I will do this by focusing
>on the play MButterfly by David Henry Hwang and my
>first scene. In both we see women utilizing the roles
>given to them by their society to get what they want.
>The mother in my scene does that by playing on her
>role as a mother. She tries to show her daughter that
>they can still be a family by showing her how they
>were one in the past. Song utilizes her/his role as a
>woman (in drag) by showing herself as feminine, meek,
>and submissive; in order to get military secrets from
>Gallimard.

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