The Thematic Paradigm by Robert Ray

In "Theme paradigm", Robert Ray explained two different heroes, illegal heroes and official heroes. Official hero shares common values ​​and traditional beliefs. Illegal heroes have a distinct and false view, but unlike official heroes, their behavior is beyond the law. Ray explains how illegal heroic role has many functions. The morals of these heroes can be compared clearly. Films, including official heroes and illegal heroes, are effective as they promise spectator's power, power, wisdom and authority, whether you are over the law or under the law.

Heroes are an important prototype of Western culture. However, the hero is almost always a man, drawing a "masculine" feature related to gender. Robert Ray defines two heroes with his excerpt "Thematic Paradigm": official hero and illegal hero. The official hero accepts common values ​​and traditional beliefs and everyone can not transcend the law but have a clear idea that illegal heroes are wrong but the behavior goes beyond the law (378). However, Ray failed to solve another type of hero, postmodern female hero. Over the past decades, women's action hero has risen, showing the many "masculine" features of traditional heroes and the characteristics of a new "feminization". Sarah Conner of the Terminator series reflects these qualities as it transforms from an official hero to a passive illegal hero protecting his son from the future to protect his son.

According to Robert Rey, author of "Theme Paradigm", illegal hero knows good and evil regardless of law and holds laws by hand as needed (378). Sarah Connor changed from an official hero to a passive illegal hero throughout the series. In the first movie, when Sarah caught people following her in town, she tried to count on the law. She soon asked the police for help, but they could not respond quickly to save her. Future father and future child, Kelly, saved our lives and prevented them from being killed by the terminator. But when arrested, Sarah soon noticed that the police did not believe her story and she could not protect her from the terminator. Sarah must rely on the law and the lease to protect her from damage to these mobile phones.

Sarah Connor not only embodies the characteristics of illegal heroes but also shows the characteristics of passive English heroes. In his excerpt "The Paradigm", Ray introduced another type of hero, a passive hero as an official hero and an illegal hero settlement model. In the terminator series, Sara does not want to break the law or become a hero. Before the unstoppable robot bends to kill her, Sarah did not break the law or plan to be a hero. As a college student waitress, she has no background to save the world. Sarah, the role of the hero, has changed to "goddess" and "fierce warrior" (Carnes). She became one of the greatest female heroes in Hollywood, but her only choice was her child's future father. When Sarah grasped Kyle Reese's hand at the moment, she decided to save her normal life from the machine.