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A 5 page paper which examines the two
productions "Madame Butterfly" and "True West" and illustrates how the two are very
similar in terms of presenting dual nature as it relates to humans, no matter their culture.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAbttrfy.rtf
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from the eyes of most people. In Sam Shepards "True West" and David Hwangs "Madame Butterfly" we see clear illustrations of dual nature. We also see that culture does not
hinder the reality of this dual nature, for whether it be California or Asia, people still have dual natures, and the environment only serves to influence how that dual nature
evolves. In the following paper we examine "Madame Butterfly" and then "True West." The paper then discusses and compares the two as they involve the dual nature of mankind.
Madame Butterfly The story of Madame Butterfly is one that illustrates the life of a woman in Asia. She is an Asian woman and at a relatively early age
needed to help support her family by becoming a geisha girl. It was not necessarily a life she liked but one she was required to live in order to survive.
She eventually meets with a young man who seems to fall in love with her. She wants this marriage very badly and even vows Christianity so that she can marry
him and perhaps escape from the life she once lived. This is where there dual nature comes heavily into play. Her relatives urge her not to marry, for she
is nothing but a geisha girl and does not have the respectability to marry. She insists however, and even deceives her husband, not truly enlightening him about her career. He
thinks she is a nice Asian girl, not what we would call a girl on the streets. She plays the wife role, and becomes a mother. But, her man
has left, for he has always vowed he would eventually take an American wife anyway. He had never really been honest with his Asian wife about the fact that he
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