Both Sailor Moon and Utena centre on characters who progress from
adolescence to adulthood, implicating them in the Bildungsroman (comingof-age story) tradition; both also feature protagonists who participate, to
some extent, in the narrative trajectory of the Hero’s Journey as articulated
by mythologists Joseph Campbell and Northrop Frye.7 These literary
traditions overlap in many ways, and each has served as the foundation for
countless epic tales, both historically and contemporarily.

for example, may be symbolic events adaptable to multiple
interpretations, but such phraseology assumes a heterosexual, male point
of view. Delving into this dilemma, Stuller inquires

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin
concludes that in western fairy tales, “There are two definitions of woman.
… The good woman must be possessed. The bad woman must be killed,
or punished. Both must be nullified.”15 Obedient women who succumb to
the “natural” progression from bashful virgin to sexual object to doting wife
and selfless mother are rewarded, while those who disrupt the “order” of
these events are met with contempt and disgust.

However, due to
the fact that As You Like It follows the trajectory of a conventional fairy tale,