Discuss The Psychological Structure Of The Characters' Image In M.Butterfly

David Henry Hwang is considered as the most renowned Asian-American drama--tist of the twentieth century. David Henry Hwang is a famous for M.Butterfly successfully performanced in public on Broadway on March 20, 1988, at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, and its author David Henry Hwang became the first Asian-American dramatist to earn the coveted Tony Award.The two protagonists of M. Butterfly have complex psychology. Song Liling is entangled in love and hatred and can't extricate herself. She becomes a tragical character in moral. Gallimard can't tolerate the conflict between illusion and reality and get suicide finally.This article is intended to analyze their psychological contradiction and anxiety, which are the social reason for their tragedy in moral and give enlightenment as to the relationship between oriental and eastern countries.This paper is divided into three main parts. In Part One, it mainly analyzes the entanglement of Song Liling's love and hatred in her mind.First of all, the first chapter mainly analyze the phenomenon of homosexual and the love which Song Liling as an actor in Opera for his homosexual complex lays on Gallimard.The second chapter maily analyzes Song Liling's hatred towards Occident by looking back to the history that China is humiliated by Occident for one hundred years and the background Song Liling lived in.This part also expatiates how he plays M.Butterfly who is loved by Gallimard and finally control Gallimard in order to take revenge on Occident.The third chapter maily combines the Floid's Id with Superego theory to analyze that Song Liling dramatically compromise the contradiction between his homosexual love and racial hatred and he is converted into a Pinkerton role entangled by this complex and can not get the recognition from morality and justice.The second chapter mainly analyzes the conflict between Gallimard's illusion and reality. The first section expatiates the history that the image of Madame Butterfly is stereotyped by Occident and the construction of Madame Butterfly stereotype in Gallimard mind.The second section mainly analyzes the anxiety resulted from the recognition of a strong man and the gender of Self.The third section ananyzes the tragedy that he uses defense mechanism to resist anxiey but fails to do it after that and the mechanism is thoroughly break down.The third chapter analyzes the social reasons of the two pentagonists' psychological tragedy from the perspective of the history of Occident Colonialism and the culture of Orientalism.The play is designed skillfully to subvert the power relationship between the West and the East by the exchange of roles and discuss David Henry Hwang's consideration about the relationship between the West and the East.At last, it appeal to the dialogue in equality. The writer makes a brief summary of the play and want to study the reason why Madame Butterfly is controversial when it is commented on from the perspective of David Henry Hwang.