(1) Madama Butterfly is a tragedy of cultural misalliance , the swift and bloody ending of which has none of the comfort and emotional certainty associated with popular operas such as La Traviata and La Bohme.

(2) It's no good blaming yourself├ö├ç├Âit was a hopeless misalliance

(3) Some even went so far as to assert that he was already married, and that it was in order to escape the consequence of an early misalliance that he had buried himself at Bishop's Crossing.

(4) When the male-female pairs aren't demonstrating strident misalliance or hopeless anomie, they confront one another as units destined for mutual inscrutability.

(5) The interrelationship between the characters too, echoes the constellation of the German Enlightenment dramas of G. E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller, complete with a symbolic father/son conflict and various misalliances .

(6) The word ÔÇÿmulattoÔÇÖ is derived from the Arabic muwallad, which originally referred to persons who were not ÔÇÿgenuineÔÇÖ Arabs, especially individuals born of black - white ÔÇÿ misalliances ÔÇÖ.