Blog 3

          In this week assignment, I have to watch a video of Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly animation and write a comment about it. Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. The video shows about a story of a woman that give her trust away and get betrayed by her love. The video starts with the scene where she meet a man from the U.S. Navy on the hill. She falls in love with the guy and give him everything. They end up make love in a garden. After that, the man have to leave her. Therefore he left her behind with his U.S. Navy hat and a gramophone. In addition, I believe he said to her that he will be back. In this scene, I think the man showed that he is irresponsible person.


          After the guy left, the woman still wait for him through many months. I think this scene showed that the woman is really fall in love with him. She give him a lot of trust and believe that he return to her. This scene portrays a woman who willing to give everything and never stop believing in the loyalty of her love. The following scene portrays the woman is pregnant and born the man's baby. She raises the child in a few years. Eventually, the man comes back. However, he comes back along with his new wife. I can see the sadness from the woman when she sees her love having a new family. The man betrays her trust, and also claims the child to his new family. At the end of the video, she ends her misery by committed suicide. I felt really bad for the woman and everything she had been through.

          In my opinion, betrayal is a terrible thing to do. The betrayer isn't only let the other person down, but also betrays the trust of that person. Once you lose someone trust, it is very difficult to get it back. Trust doesn't come easily. It needs to gain over a long period of time. However, one mistake can ruin everything you have built. In the result, betrayal can cause others to do things that they shouldn't even think about. An example from the video, the woman at the end of the video killed herself. I think that is not a good way to solve any problem. Death should not be a solution for anything. Suicide is an issue that we all should be aware of.

Work Cited

"Madama Butterfly" Youtube, uploaded by Milton Nezvanov, 11 October 2006,

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=209&v=E387c5RAhK4