Madama Butterfly

In class, we have been discussing Opera, and were assigned to watch a Madama Butterfly animation, and to leave our comments here on our blogs, so here are my thoughts:

This animation is beautiful and tragic.  The Opera music provides a sense of emotion that allows viewers to know how the main character feels throughout the story.  I can't help but feel sorry for the main character.  She gave everything to a man, got pregnant with his child, raised her child, and when he arrived home from war, he takes their child to raise with his new wife.

In the animation, with the rises and falls in the music, you are able to feel what the woman is feeling, and you can sense the pain that she is going through.

I also thought it was genius for the animators to physically show the damage done to this woman.  All while raising her child, the mother and daughter have a connection that is shown through a rope connecting their hearts.  When the father returns home, he takes the child and brings her to his wife, and physically breaks the rope, literally tearing the mother from her child.

After this, the woman runs away into the darkness, and tears herself apart, quite literally.  She tears her skin off, and then proceeds to break her insides.

While all of this is happening, the Opera music is rising and falling with the emotions of the woman.  This animation was a beautiful tragedy.