Madama Butterfly

The Madama Butterfly animation is highly creative and imaginative. It concentrates on a Japanase woman who was impregnated by an American man and then abandoned. He returned much later to retrieve his daughter, leaving the poor woman broken and suffering feeling lost to the point of suicide. The way the story played out was rather interesting because certain ideas and items were used to represent parts of the opera. For example, I found it very creative when a fish poured out of a fish bowl to signify the water breaking and the birth of a new child, or guppy, in this case. While I predicted the following part, I found it clever that the man tore the woman in two by ripping the cord, or bond, she had with her daughter. He ripped her right out of her grasp and whisked awaited child to go live with him and his new wife. After being torn apart and losing everything she ever loved, the main character physically tore herself in two signifying suicide and then was reborn into a beautiful butterfly.