Reflection #9: M. Butterfly

I really like this play and it was very different from others I reed before. This play at first was humorous but then later in the story turn up very sad and the ending was even sadder. A first I considered funny Gallimard , his shyness toward woman, when he could not finish his sentence when speaking to Song Liling, when Marc arranged a woman to have sex with Gallimard and he felt scared when he was doing it. It was also funny when the Dutch girl that have the was called Rene like Rene Gallimard and the thing that she have with the men's private part and the many names that she have for it. I even at first considered funny the fact that for twenty years Gallimard felt in love of a transsexual. But as I continued reading, as Gallimard's feeling got serious the story changed to a more serious one and as sadder were the events that occur to Gallimard more sadder the story turns up.
Well the thing is that this Gallimard was a complete woos, he was very shy toward beautiful woman. He have a fiend name Marc that was the one who always arrange him with woman because Gallimard can even speak complete sentences to them. Later Gallimar marry with I think was not very attractive woman named Helga , this woman was one , as said by Gallimard, one that no man can fell in love with her because of her past. Gallimard worked in the French Government and he is a diplomat who's decision have an important role in the war against Vietnam and he have access to secret information regardless to the United state movement in the war. The thing is that one day he went to see his favorite opera called Madame Butterfly, this opera was his favorite because he wanted to be like one of the characters named Pikerton who was a very masculine man and was marry with a very submissive Chinese girl named Cio-Cion Sang. That day he fell in love with the Chinese "actress" that play the character of Cio-Cio Sang named Song Liling. The sad part was that Gallimard truly fell in love with Song without knowing that she was a he for twenty years ant that Gallimard was been used by Song to retrieve information for the Chinese government. At the end Gallimard decided to still love the Song that represented Madame Butterfly in his imagination and he kill himself in jail.

Reflection #8: Emely Dickinson

The poem “Heaven”- is what I cannot reach! the author exposes the theme of life, deprivation and pain. In the first stanza the speaker define heaven as something distant and unreachable as “The Apple on the Tree-/ Provided it do hopeless- hang-”(lines 2-3) and these two lines uses the image of a tree with hanging a delicious apple and someone desperate want to eat it, but is so high that is impossible to get it. Also in those line make the allusion to the myth of Tantalus, in where Zeus kill him with a big rock because of perjury and robbery, and after his death Tantalus was condemn to eternal torture of to be in a lake with the water level up to his chin and a tree with fruits, but whenever he wants to drinks water or reach a fruit these move back before he could he get any. In the second stanza the speaker describe the heaven “Behind the Hill- the House behind-/There- Paradise-is found” (lines 7-8) as a prohibit paradise that is hide behind the hills and use the images of hills that form the distance are hard to climb and behind them are a land that is restricted and in these lines express the deprivation to enter to heaven. In the third stanza the speaker conclude the poem with “Enamored- of the Conjuror-/That spurned us- Yesterday” (lines 11-12), where expresses that God (the Conjuror) refuse all who want to go to heaven a long time ago. This poems involve religious beliefs in where maybe the author feel desperate or frustrated because of how to reach the heaven, and comparing that with conventional views of heaven that are accept God, regret of your sin and be saved, she have different opinion against the Christian.