M. Butterfly, a play by David Henry Hwang, has fascinated audiences for many years. I love stories with lots of twists and turns, and M. Butterfly depicts a relationship between a Chinese "woman" and a French diplomat that goes on for 20 years, only to discover that the "woman" was actually a man. A Communist Party spy is sent to get information about the Vietnam War, but Gallimard was too stubborn to understand until Liling, the Chinese opera singer, is sent to France, where he is revealed to be a man in court. Through this, we can see the relationship between gender, capitalism, ethnicity/nationality and sexuality. The way M. Butterfly displays gender can be seen very clearly as the show progresses. When Song Liling and Comrade Chin discuss how men play women's parts, Liling says, "No, it's because only a man knows how a woman should behave." This statement says that a man knows a real woman, one who is submissive to him, and this is what Liling gave to Song. Take the moment when Gallimard and Song were talking, and Liling says, "It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man." With this, Liling highlights the gender differences between men and women in that period. White women were considered more extroverted than Chinese women. So when Gallimard finds Liling, he thinks he has found a woman of his fantasies, a woman he can have as a lover but who will not tell his wife, she will only be submissive to him. Rene Gallimard fantasized about being a real man because they didn't consider Chinese men to be real men or masculine. During the scene where Song and the judge are talking, Song says, "His eyes say yes, but his mouth says no. The West sees itself as masculine, with big guns, big industry, while the East is feminine, weak and delicate". ." This shows how gender is perceived in different cultures. Another scene that shows how sexuality relates to these characters is when Gallimard first meets Renee and they are about to have sex. She says, "You've got a nice hangover." This demonstrates her sexuality as a heterosexual, but it catches Gallimard off guard because she has never received compliments about her penis before. It shows how open she is about her sexuality and how playfully she expresses it love and betrayal. But unlike other love stories, this story also shows how the Chinese were perceived by Westerners in the early 1960s and perhaps up to the present day. Butterfly shows us through gender, capitalism, l ethnicity and sexuality as three of the main characters reflect all those ideals and how they relate to each other through those ideals.