Kangelase võimed jäävad väiksemaks, ehk kaovad, kui tal enam kedagi päästa ei ole, sest päästetav saab väga hästi ka omapead hakkama. ISABELLA: ,,Flavio, mu Flavio! It is frightening to consider just how deeply entrenched objectification of women really goes. We must certainly combat sexual objectification, but the battle will not end there. Women are objectified in more profound ways than we realise, and we must tear down every entwined shred of the patriarchy, in order to achieve our modest goal of being recognized and treated as human beings. Good by, my Superhero! Adieu, mon Flavio! Adiós! Lebewohl! Hüvasti! Ära lähen sinult nende õitsevi ilmuga!" Kogu lugu nagu keerlebki naiselikkuse ja mehelikkuse ümber. Armastuse ümber. Isabella ja Flavio mängivad üle nagu kirjanikud kirjutavad üle, utreerivad. Tegelikult ollakse ikka Mari ja Indrek. Kõik tunded on suuremad. Isabella ja Flavio annavad edasi suurte sõnameistrite tekste.
(good maiden waiting to be rescued, the evil mother/grandmother figure, but one hardly ever sees a woman capable of taking care of herself). Fairy-‐tales are seen as reproducing traditional patriarchal gender roles. All stereotypes and social roles related to patriarchy get revisited and reinterpreted. Distinction between gender and sex appears – from there on, sex is viewed as the biological, the body, which can be either male or female, whereas gender is something socially determined and constructed, the feminine and masculine
which would create a more honest and appropriate style of openness, fragmentation and non- linearity. Parallel studies in the visual arts stressed a feminine sensibility of soft fluid colours, an emphasis on the personal and decorative, and on forms that evoked the female genitalia. Five years later the debate had moved on, from exclusively feminine concerns to the wider issues of gender in social and cultural contexts. Patriarchy and capitalism should be examined more closely, perhaps as Althusser had attempted, and sophisticated models built to integrate the larger web of economics, education, division of labour, biological constraints and cultural assumptions. Literature will often reflect the cultural assumptions and attitudes of its period, and that of course includes attitudes towards women: their status, their roles, their expectations. But a literature